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<DIV>Thanks all for your humour, thoughts and advice.</DIV>
<DIV>We are rolling up our sleeves and helping out the locals getting silt out
of there homes as the waters go down</DIV>
<DIV>Fri 21st we will be back in Emerald and take some core samples to see what
is going on. still no changes in the Rel Humidity or Moisture Content</DIV>
<DIV>While up there we will put lime render over the internal body coat so the
building can be operational again.</DIV>
<DIV>Reconstruction will be in April. Still waiting to here from the council to
find out if they want straw or another option to replace the first bales.</DIV>
<DIV>The floods have now peaked in Brisbane and thanks to the very clever people
playing with the flood gates at the Wivenhoe dam, a lot of properties were
spared. The Dam has been at 190 – 200% capacity since the big down fall last
week. The trick was to save the wall and regulate how much of the city got
flooded. The clever people were all back slapping this morning, though I doubt
it is all over for them yet. Over 60 suburbs have been effected. </DIV>
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<DIV>Thanks for the reminder, we are the lucky country down under. With 75% of
Queensland now declared a disaster area, we’ll hose off and get up again. My
thoughts are with those 12 months on in Haiti.</DIV>
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<DIV>Love to all</DIV>
<DIV>Chris and Col</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=jswearingen@skillful-means.com
href="mailto:jswearingen@skillful-means.com">John Swearingen</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, January 12, 2011 7:38 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=GSBN@greenbuilder.com
href="mailto:GSBN@greenbuilder.com">(private, with public archives) Global Straw
Building Network</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [GSBN] photos of Toowoomba yesterday
....</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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that why they call it "down under"?
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<DIV>ok, bad joke at this time.....<IMG
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<DIV>John<BR><BR>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Graeme North <SPAN
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<DIV style="WORD-WRAP: break-word">the lucky country??
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<DIV>Graeme</DIV>
<DIV>Graeme North Architects</DIV>
<DIV>49 Matthew Road</DIV>
<DIV>RD1</DIV>
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<DIV>tel/fax +64 (0)9 4259305</DIV>
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<DIV>On 11/01/2011, at 4:05 PM, Bohdan Dorniak wrote:</DIV>
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<FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><B>From:</B><SPAN> </SPAN>Matiasz, Sophia2
(DFEEST) [mailto:<A href="mailto:Sophia2.Matiasz@sa.gov.au"
target=_blank>Sophia2.Matiasz@sa.gov.au</A>]<SPAN> </SPAN><BR><B>Sent:</B><SPAN> </SPAN>Tuesday,
11 January 2011 12:21 PM<BR><B>To:</B><SPAN> </SPAN><A
style="COLOR: blue; TEXT-DECORATION: underline"
href="mailto:'bdco@adam.com.au"
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<DIV dir=ltr lang=en-us align=left><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT
size=2><SPAN><FONT face=Arial>Hi all</FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr lang=en-us align=left><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT
size=2><SPAN><FONT face=Arial>These are some photos of what is currently
happening in Australia.This is a flash flood in Toowoomba,
Queensland.</FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr lang=en-us align=left><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT
size=2><SPAN><FONT face=Arial>I know that Chris Newton is looking at the re
construction of the Visitor's Centre at Emarald - I wish her and her helpers
all the best.</FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr lang=en-us align=left><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN>Bohdan
Dorniak</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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AUSBALE</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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few photos of Toowoomba yesterday ....<BR></FONT></FONT><BR></DIV>
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