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[Rik E Boy]

Last night an 'inland Tsnami' from Toowoomba through to a little town called Grantham claimed the lives of eight people. The towns West of Ipswich are cut off as the Warrego Highway has been closed. It is still raining today (right through to Saturday says the Radio) and they reckon the Brisbane River will reach 3m on Wednesday threatening the state capital for the first time.

The Wivenhoe Dam is at 106% capacity and the road that runs over it is almost under. We have to release the water from the dam occaisonaly and more water runs into the Brisbane. One bloke was on the radio today saying that the water went over the gutter of his street and three minutes later it was up to his window sill.

regards,

REB

[Psyber]

Only last March I was driving through the area between Bundaberg and Brisbane then down to Coomera and across to Goondiwindi,
It is hard to reconcile the TV pictures with these places as I saw them.

I've been in touch with friends up there on line, to check how they are doing, and so far all are unaffected.
One guy I know in Bargara has a shallow pool at the bottom of his back yard, but nothing worse.
Bargara is beach-side and he thinks he'll be fine unless there is a Tsunami as well.

Now I've asked the question of a friend who lives south of Perth...

[Booney]

Truly is a remarkable set of circumstances effecting QLD at this point in time. Can only hope no further lives are lost and people remain safe. We cant stop the water from doing what it does but remaining safe must be the priority.

[Footy Chick]

What a disaster

Make sure you keep us up to date on your own situation REB (and any other posters who happen to live in QLD)

[Gingernuts]

Know Toowoomba quite well as I have family up there. Seeing that footage of cars being tossed around like toys down the main street is shocking.

ABC is reporting that 72 people are still missing. Crazy stuff.

[Rik E Boy]

What a disaster

Make sure you keep us up to date on your own situation REB (and any other posters who happen to live in QLD)

The Swich has been spared so far. The river we are on is called the Bremer. That is due to peak soon as well but my house is in a place called Eastern Heights which should remain dry.

Hope your rellies are OK Gingernuts!

regards,

REB

[Footy Chick]

A workmate just came in and said her family is in Towoomba - and she hasn't heard from them yet.

[GCC]

and they reckon the Brisbane River will reach 3m on Wednesday threatening the state capital for the first time.

......since 1974, lets hope we dont see a repeat of this
(Sorry in advance if the link doesnt work properly, there is a picture of the old Festival Hall, Cnr of Albert and Charlotte street well under water and looking east to the story bridge, could be taken from Ann or Wickham st)

I am well safe, but if anyone from SA Footy gets hit Gold Coast to Brisbane, PM me if you need a hand with clean up

http://www.google.com.au/images?q=brisbane+floods+1974&rls=com.microsoft:en-au:IE-SearchBox&oe=UTF-8&rlz=1I7GZAZ_en-GB&redir_esc=&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=AIcrTcyQMI-qccXgodoH&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=4&ved=0CEgQsAQwAw&biw=1259&bih=795

[Drop Bear]

Definately hard to comprehend without seeing it first hand. All the best to the QLD posters.

[CK]

The family home in the country was innundated with the floods at the end of 1992 that went through the Adelaide Hills. We were incredibly lucky, in that, despite being on stilts, no water flowed through the house, even though water was well over the level of the floors. The garage, garden and all outside was completely wrecked at the time and took ages to restore.

What is happening in Queensland is so, so much more terrible and the small experience I had with this just sends chills up my spine at the horror they are facing. Thoughts and prayers go out to all of them, what a horrific situation.

[Dog_ger]

Today I awoke to shock/horror.

11/01/2011

Is this Australia?

Our hearts go out to everyone that is affected by this.

[mypaddock]

Should the govt be taking some responsibility for this?? I mean why are people allowed to build houses without stilts in areas which are known for having large amounts of rainfall?

[White Line Fever]

This is hard to get the head around.

We come out of a 10year drought a year ago and now this.

The Murray is filling up, the lower lakes are filling up.. who would've thought.

Imagine having to get in your ceiling, cut a hole through your tin roof and sit up there hoping to be saved while your life washes away beneath you.

I feel sorry for the countless livestock and pets

[interested observer]

Very scary stuff.

[Choccies]

I spent a few months workign up in Toowoomba and have some good friends up there who are devastated by this occurence. If you don't know Toowoomba its situated on the range so I feel for the people of the lower lying areas too like Gatton etc too who's area sits at the basin of 2 big ranges and floods when there's 10mls of rain....

Shocked to see the photos of the main street just a raging torrent of water...

[Bum Crack]

My heart goes out to everyone up there. It makes you wonder if we are going to be spared in SA as well. If we keep getting all of this rain, surely it has a chance to affect the many towns on the Murray. One can only hope it doesn't get to that situation but after what has happened up North, who knows.

[JK]

Echo the sentiments of other posters, incredibly sad what's happening up there and my thoughts are with all Banana-Benders.

Hope all our SAFooty boys stay dry and unharmed.

[Interceptor]

When I moved to Brisbane in 2005, the combined dam levels reached a dire 13%
It prompted fairly strict water restrictions and the state govt to build a desal plant on the Gold Coast.
Although now completed, the desal plant has been shutdown and obviously won't be required for quite some time.

When you read about and see photos of the 1974 floods in Brisbane itself, it was pretty devastating.
The Wivenhoe dam was built to prevent such a disaster from occurring again.
Even this won't be enough to prevent some flooding from happening down stream.

Clearly though the country areas are in far worse shape and it will take years for those areas to recover.
The amount of rain that has been falling in the state is simply "monsoonal".
It really has been in "holy %^&*" proportions.

Had more than enough at my place as well, but fortunately my drainage is reasonable (being on a sloping block helps somewhat).

[Brucetiki]

Meanwhile...

Perth is having the opposite problem now - 4 houses (so far) destroyed in bushfires in Lake Clifton, south of Perth

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/deliberat ... 5985485582

Not as big a crisis as Queensland but still devastating for those affected.

[whufc]

All my in laws live in a country town called Dalby which is a 45 minute drive from Toowoomba.

They have been affected hugely as well with lots of hours damaged and people struggling to get to everyday supplies.

Really sad state of affairs in QLD.