Queensland Floods

Flood levels around Brisbane are supposed to peak on Wednesday. Looks as if this flood will be even more damaging than the one in 1974. There are 9 deaths confirmed, with many more unaccounted for. Previously it was said that an area the equivalent of France and Germany combined was under water, but the flood has got much worse since.

Luckily Brisbane is very hilly, and I live on one of them, though there are many thousands of homes in lower-lying areas that will go under. This is a disaster of unimaginable proportions.

Further north in Queensland, cities and towns are just beginning to recover.

Johnno

Hope you, your family & friends all continue to be safe. Those of use in the NSW are thinking of you & will help where we can. Sandy

I was just watching this

Stay safe.

The Brisbane River is expected to peak this afternoon. About 40 thousand properties are expected to be flooded. Not such a large percentage of Brisbane as a whole, but a great disaster for those involved. 75% of the state has been declared a disaster area, and now there are towns in northern New South Wales that are expecting flood waters. Towns west of Brisbane have been devastated.

Johnno

They were saying on my radio that like us a few weeks back, they have the unenviable difficulty of higher than usual tides and rivers in flood. I have cousins in Corlette.

Yes that's right. Flood water moving towards the sea will meet a king tide, so all that water in the Brisbane River will have nowhere to go except into all the lower-lying areas of the city.

Johnno