Sean O'Brien, Pro Windsurfer – seanobrien.com.au™

Over the past few weeks we have had non stop rain throughout Brisbane and the surrounding areas of Queensland which has all come to a head this week with one of the worst floods in 100 years in my city. Thousands of homes have been destroyed and many lives have been lost. The devastation in the affected areas is simply incredible. I have seen some of the worst scenes of my life watching the news on television with people’s houses literally FLOATING down the rivers with victims trapped inside the houses as well as a tidal wave of water that hit the mountain town of Toowoomba trapping many people in the centre of town in their cars.

With multiple tropical cyclones currently sitting off the eastern coast of Australia it appears the floods are only going to get worse. The Queensland Government has set up a Flood Relief Appeal which so far has raised over $35 million dollars; a trifle compared to the money required to rebuild this state when the waters recede. Whilst I am doing my best over here helping friends and family to try to save their homes, you can do your bit and DONATE to this worthy cause following the link below!

Right now, most of the area around my city of Brisbane is underwater. After 6 weeks of continuous torrential rain including a cyclone and some very big tropical low pressure systems, many towns around me are completely underwater and already some lives have been lost. I’m doing what I can to support some charities who are helping flood victims during this mess. Today, with some friends of mine we sailed at Golden Beach, Caloundra which is an estuary full of many shallow sand banks and is normally quite a nice place to sail. After the rain, the entire passage has flooded and nearly all the photos of me shown above I am actually crossing sections that normally you can WALK ON, but today they were under 2m of water – incredible!!! The channel which is normally only 50m wide at some sections is almost 450m wide in some parts!!! Hopefully the rain will soon stop…

My thoughts are with the families who are in the towns currently being evacuated.

My website has been undergoing lot’s of redesigns, repairs and modifications over its 7 year history. What began as one of my first university assignments (to communicate a story through a digital or online medium – I obviously chose to tell my own story, about windsurfing!), AUS120.com has become in a way my own portfolio for webdesign. I have been a freelance webdesigner for nearly 8 years and have always tried to redesign my site each season to keep up with current trends and my own inability to still like something a few months down the track.

Here, for the first time, you can see the HISTORY of AUS120.com™ and the infamous TOUR-DIARY. Click each screenshot to view the full site in all it’s glory. It’s a pity I can’t show the jquery and Flash effects that were involved in some of the sites, but this will do.

CLICK HERE TO SEE ALL THE VERSIONS!

CLICK HERE TO SEE ALL THE VERSIONS!