I've heard many people are getting stomach bugs due to sewage. But a "pig in a blanket" is heaven for those who haven't eaten for twelve hours due to flood cleanup- and just one more job to do before stopping for the day.

No! There not feasible!
thinkabit,
I'm certain that there were people such as you who ridiculed & denoucned the ideas of a Suez Canal or Panama Canal or the canal network throughout Europe, Australia's Snowy Mountains scheme etc. etc.
Well, thankfully there were people who thought of years ahead, way past their Superannuation performance, people with the benefit to their society in mind.
And, i suppose those who were against such projects just like you are now, didn't mind to hold their hands out for the benefits afterwards.
I don't know how many more times I need to say this but just for you I'll say it again;
Such projects are not to be looked at as a quick fix/quick buck scheme. They're on-going for many years, even decades. These schemes/projects are with the future in mind, not just the present. I'm certain we'll end up with settlements full of citizens with a far, far healthier mentality than you.

Hi TAB,

Indy has good intentions but is wide of the mark on the idea of a canal or tunnel through Brisbane to mittigate flooding. Regular flooding is something Brisbane is going to have to live with for years to come.

ps. I know what you mean about those 98c buckets from Bunnings. You get what you pay for.

Indy no one can afford a water harvesting project costing billions which is only going to be used at best for a few days once a decade.

As for draining the water away from Brisbane, at it's peak this flood, about half as much water as the 1840 & 1893 floods was a kilometer wide, & 60 meters deep, moving at about 8 knots. A channel to carry this much water would make the Suez canal look like a little creek.

For decades there was a continual dredging operation in the Brisbane river, extracting sand for use in industry around Brisbane. Green blob pressure got that stopped. I wonder if the river has then silted up reducing the capacity to carry these flood waters. Perhaps those flooded should be sewing the greeny activists that got the dredging stopped.

One of the things about science people is that we think that given enough thought any problem can be solved- it's often true- but sometimes in surprising ways.

Japanese American Physicist apparently Socialist Blank Slater- Michio Kaku in Physics Of The Impossible talks about Clarks Rules and Classes Of Impossibility.

http://bigthink.com/guest-thinkers/classes-of-impossibilities-the-internet-in-your-contact-lenses/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke's_three_laws

Class One impossibilities are technologies that are impossible today but don’t necessarily violate the known laws of physics; Class Two impossibilities are those that are at the very edge of our understanding; and Class Three impossibilities are those that violate the known laws of physics.

The water problem in Brisbane is a difficult engineering problem- probably not at the same impossibility level as for example a Space Elevator or Dyson Sphere but certainly challenging.

Problem complexity often has an impact on solvability.

There have been some extreme fails for those that seek to tell people how to live rather than working with them for some outcome- such as political ideologies. It's been said- "many people agree on problems in the community - solutions not so much".

Communities are very complex even more so due to the policies of the "modern" age.

Hassy,

Gives us a break, and stop blaming everything on the Greenies. Brisbanes population in 1840 was less than 10,000 today it's 2.5 million about 250 to 300 times greater. As for your water flows through Brisbane in the 19th century, there is no factual evidence to claim they were greater or lesser than 2011 or 2022. Its all part of your anti climate change narrative.