The way natures way treated us was in deed alarming through the year.

The precious memories of my mum are always vivid and will forever be etched in my heart, mind and soul.

I wonder what happened to her.

Werkstuk 18.

Australians voiced relief and surprise after one of the world’s most powerful cyclones spared the nation’s northeast coast from expected devastation on Thursday, with no reported deaths despite winds tearing off roofs and toppling trees.

This is a poem I’ve written in remembrance of the Queensland floods and its victims.

QUEENSLAND’S flood crisis continues to hit corporate Australia, as local stocks and the dollar come under pressure on economic concerns.

The devastating Queensland floods that have claimed at least nine lives in the past 24 hours and left more than 60 people missing have hit the state’s capital Brisbane, where thousands of residents have been warned to evacuate their homes. There were fears that the extent of the flooding could exceed the levels of the 1974 flood, which killed 14 people and inundated more than 6,700 homes.

Flash floods swept through a northeastern Australian community Monday, killing one woman, trapping others in cars and leaving some clinging to trees as relentless rains brought more misery to a region battling its worst flooding in decades.

A swollen river submerged bridges and inundated homes and stores Sunday in Australia’s already sodden Queensland state as more heavy rain added to the country’s worst flooding in decades.