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I've been wondering how you and others on the board from Australia were doing. From news reports it seems pretty extreme. Where I am we've had hurricane Igor through here in the fall and lots of coastal erosion due to very heavy seas and tides, and lack of sea ice this winter.

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Its extreme. I have been sandbaging all day and are stuffed. The river is at 4.1 meters and rising expected to peak at 5.5 which will be a disaster. Its that already.

Empty Boats and Poontoons are floating down the river which is running like a express train. My Local bowls club just went under water. The power is on then off . Thedrinking water supply looks like it could be contaminated.... Then the massive clean up comes.

Once a pond a time I was worried about Bird flu, 1918 etc and got prepared. Electricity Generators, food, water. They may come in very handy. It took fifty pulls of the gen rope to start it after two years of no use, but its going well now.

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You in Brisbane? Good luck! Hope you don't have to evacuate.

I have never seen floods like that before.

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Petersburg, VA - Had to pick up a relative from the ER this evening and the place was pretty packed - heard a LOT of coughing and was told that most were there with flu symptoms.

Got a call from a relative of a student in eastern PA. Student came down with flu like symptoms and ended up on a ventilator for three weeks. Near death but has improved in the past few days (although finger tips are still blue). Diagnosis unknown.

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For the record, I'm not seeing anything substantial in my neck of the woods (southern Alberta, Canada). A normal number of coughs, normal number of sniffles. We had the stomach flu blow through around Christmas, but even that wasn't overly bad (no one in my family caught it, which is a first). Haven't heard of anyone who is really sick either. Not yet, anyway.

As a follow-up, we have learned of a neighbor several houses down who has come down with something very swine-fluish-like. Coughing was so bad a few nights ago they had to take him into the emergency room. No diagnoses was made. They gave him some pills (we don't know what) and sent him on his way. As of yesterday, he was still coughing hard. Very dry cough.

He is the only one around here so far that's had a horrid cough. Perhaps it's the start.

We have an outbreak at the hospital I work at and they have closed some units to visitors. Staff and patients have gotten sick. They are calling it an intestinal bug. No mention of flu. Staff I have talked to indicate symptoms are diarrhea and vomiting with fever. A few do have respiratory symptoms. Age range is large but doesn't include children. This is in Florida.


Update: Outbreak officially named a Norovirus.

I attended a theatrical play in Calgary yesterday. I could count only about 4 or 5 people with coughs out of the 600 or so seats that were filled almost to capacity. And all of them seemed well contained (infrequent). I would say not much is going on in this area except for occasional sporadic cases here and there.