More flood reporting

I'm reading such strange things on facebook at the moment, like this:

C: Finally Milk has arrived to Toowoomba - just ran down to Betros Bros with Kids - cereal for breakfast all round!

S: We have absolutely none here in Rocky! Supplies are very limited for most things. Most shops are closing as they have no stock to sell. They are saying trucks maybe able to get through on the weekend but it will depend on the conditions of the roads.

Yesterday my brother-in-law, who was called in from leave, was flying around in a helicopter looking for people, who'd most likely be dead. (There's not really much other way to say it - they were particularly trying to spot vehicles that had been swept away so they could check them. (He wasn't called in earlier for rescues, because the helicopters he flies are smaller and not fitted with winches, but they are good for reconnaisance and low-level flying.)) My Mum is in one of those isolated suburbs in Western Brisbane on food rations, where people are now running out of essentials, particularly because their power went off. She said she went to have a look at the local shops, which went under, and it stinks. It all just sounds so weird.