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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: IassaFTots on January 12, 2011, 12:26:51 PM

Title: Floods enter Brisbane, 20,000 in danger
Post by: IassaFTots on January 12, 2011, 12:26:51 PM

AP, just a link. 

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40996681/ns/world_news-asiapacific/

Those poor people.  How sad, and how devastating.  I wouldn't even have known to search out this article, if it wasn't for LC posting in the shout box about it yesterday. 

Title: Re: Floods enter Brisbane, 20,000 in danger
Post by: IassaFTots on January 13, 2011, 02:16:02 PM

"Save my Brother First." 

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That he couldn't swim and must have been terrified as floodwaters rose around him, his mother and his little brother only made the 13-year-old's decision more exceptional.

By the time a rescuer had swum to the family's car, Jordan's mind was made up. "Save my brother first," he said.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/12/australia-floods-kindness-strangers-brothers

How sad.