lure of the disco

I should have made this post days ago, but it's been crazy around here (both with work, being one of the only supermarkets still open in the area, and at home, with travel preparations – nothing to do with the flooding, mind you. Our house/suburb is thankfully unaffected). Better late than never, right?

By now you've probably heard about the Queensland floods. An outdated scale of things – the actual affected area would be a lot bigger, as 75% of the State had been declared a disaster zone, and that's not counting flooding in other States, over the border. 200,000 people have been affected, and even though no one I know are in dire situations (a few of them have flooded houses, but they are all safe), it is seriously heartbreaking, watching the footage on TV, all the articles and photos online.

So, basically I'm saying, if you can, please give. Some places you can do so:

Preimier's Disaster Relief Appeal
Australian Red Cross
RSPCA flood donation

Some fandom efforts, too, in the tradition of auctions like help_haiti or help_chile:

Help QLD @ DW
Media auction @ LJ
Fic auction @ LJ

For more up to date information on the floods, both the ABC and Brisbane Times are good sources, or the #QLDFloods/#QLDFlood tags on Twitter.

Thanks, guys.