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Occupants of a car rescued after attempting to drive through floodwaters at Kenmore Hills. Pic: CHANNEL 9
[release] • Warning that flood deluge has 'just begun'
• [url=http://www.news.com.au/national/wild-weather-to-batter-the-state/story-e6frfkvr-1226251857627]Evacuations spark new flood nightmare[/url]
• [url=http://www.news.com.au/national/rivers-burst-towns-flood-in-northern-nsw/story-e6frfkvr-1226252736428]NSW flooding: Town 'cut in two' by water[/url]
• [url=http://www.news.com.au/pictures/gallery-e6frflv9-1226253117351]In pictures: Queensland flooding[/url]
[B]DOZENS of people have been evacuated from their homes, hundreds of streets closed and Australia Day celebrations cancelled as drenching rain continues to fall across the Queensland.[/B]
Conditions are expected to worsen with creeks already breaking their banks, sending floodwaters into homes and businesses, the Courier-Mail reported.
Two women were reported missing after a car was found flooded in the Glass House Mountains with no-one inside, but police said they were found early this morning.
Last night, emergency rescue officers were called to Bellmere, north of Caboolture, after reports of people trapped in their cars by floodwaters.
Conditions are expected to worsen with creeks already breaking their banks, sending floodwaters into homes and businesses.
As at 5.45am Wednesday there are flood warnings for the Mary, Noosa, Maroochy and Mooloolah rivers, north of Brisbane and for the Albert and Logan rivers south of Brisbane.
Last night, emergency rescue officers were called to Bellmere, north of Caboolture, after reports of people trapped in their cars by floodwaters. On arrival, police found the occupants had managed to free themselves.
And a car was found flooded in the Glass House Mountains with no one inside. Ambulance and fire crews were called to Old Gympie Road for a water rescue about 8.30pm but the car was found empty.
Police were searching to determine whether anyone is missing.
Three people were forced to swim from their car at Kenmore Hills, in Brisbane's west, after being caught in waters yesterday afternoon, while an ABC childcare centre was evacuated on Zillmere Rd at Boondall, in the city's north.
Three people in Narangba were rescued after their house was flooded.
Rescue crews were called to a house on Moore Road in Kurwongbah in Brisbane's north at 8pm but were unable to find anyone in danger.
After a further street patrol, however, three people were found stuck in their house.
Earlier in the day, five children were reported trapped in chest-deep stormwater at Morayfield, north of Brisbane, prompting calls for closer parental supervision in waterways.
Evacuation centres were set up in Deception Bay and Narangba, also to Brisbane's north, last night.
The SES received more than 400 requests for assistance between midnight and 4pm and responded to more than 160 jobs across Queensland, including 90 jobs in Brisbane, 50 in the southeast and 23 across the north coast.
At Toombul, in Brisbane's north, several cars were immersed "roughly halfway up their windows", although no one was injured.
The Sunshine Coast was hammered yesterday, with Sugarbag Rd at Aroona recording 222mm between 9am and 5pm, and many other places getting more than 150mm.
Falls of more than 100mm were recorded throughout Brisbane and as far west as Goondiwindi, extending north.
Thirty Brisbane bus routes were also either cut or rerouted.
Power interruptions hit the grid yesterday, affecting about 9000 homes in the southeast.
Weather bureau forecaster Jackson Browne said no rainfall records were broken yesterday.
"There's still a moist inflow off the ocean from an upper level trough. The trough is inducing the rain and it isn't moving anywhere," he said.
"The other major factor is the monsoon trough, which is gradually strengthening. It's a bit unusual, dipping so far south, but not uncommon."
More drenching rain is expected today in the soaked southeast, north and central areas.
Brisbane, Ipswich, Hervey Bay, Gympie, Toowoomba and the Sunshine and Gold coasts are all expected to receive heavy falls.
Storms and rain will continue about Brisbane until Sunday when it will ease to showers.
Offshore, conditions will remain rough. The upper Noosa River in the Cooloola section of Great Sandy National Park is flooded, and campers have been directed to leave.
Tomorrow, the heaviest rain may be in the north of the state, although showers and storms will continue in the southeast.
On Friday, the monsoon trough will lie east-west across the state, bringing heavy rain from Yeppoon, on the central Queensland coast, west to Urandangi, near the NT border.
Authorities have moved to ease pressure on dams.
Seqwater mobilised its Flood Operations Centre and made moderate releases from Leslie Harrison Dam, southeast of Brisbane at 2pm and the storage capacity of other catchments continued to climb, with North Pine dam at 95.9 per cent, Somerset Dam at 99.6 per cent and Wivenhoe at 76.1.
Queensland Fire and Rescue Service commissioner Lee Johnson appealed to drivers not to entered floodwaters, saying firefighters rescued more people from water than they did from fires each year.[/release]
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Heres the park near my house!
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go play on that slide
Kinda wish that happened here, it looks pretty cool, yeah yeah damages etc. but it still looks cool.
[QUOTE=Kymandu;34380328]Kinda wish that happened here, it looks pretty cool, yeah yeah damages etc. but it still looks cool.[/QUOTE]
yeah casualties and ruinous property damage pfft who fucking cares about that it's awesome!!!
[QUOTE=Itachi_Crow;34380362]yeah casualties and ruinous property damage pfft who fucking cares about that it's awesome!!![/QUOTE]
fine, humor aside, i'll just take a raincheck.
Not again. D:
Meanwhile in Perth.
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ohfuck its so massive
I always loved how when it rains and streets get flooded (up to the curb) and lower areas of land create giant lakes.
This sucks though! wow. Hope you got flood insurance.
I would assume it's running out to sea? They may never find missing peoples :ohdear:
We had a flood in my hometown a few years back. Its no fun D: All the gates to my neighborhood were closed because the water was so deep so i stayed in a hotel.
I have no idea why Queensland is such a popular tourist destination when it's fucking flooded and covered in hurricanes all the time
I mean jesus shit how the fuck are we supposed to get Bananas down here in Melbourne [b]COME ON GUYS[/b]
[QUOTE=OvB;34380549]I would assume it's running out to sea? They may never find missing peoples :ohdear:[/QUOTE]
I volunteered for flood relief when it happened last time.
What they didn't show on the news were guys from rural areas like Grantham who got swept away by water and ended up tangled in power lines or barbed wire fences. There was a body bag full of just bits they found floating but they couldn't identify.
This year and last year have been particularly bad for Queensland during their monsoon seasons due to La Niña, sure it might have broken the drought, but I'm sure people have seen more water than they had ever wanted to.
I hope everyone affected by the flood manages alright.
[QUOTE=ZeroS;34380410]Meanwhile in Perth.
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ohfuck its so massive[/QUOTE]Hahaha this is so true. It's blooby 40*C here today.
I hope we don't have a repeat of last years floods. People have just re-built in the same areas and they are fucked if that happens.
Everybody is over-reacting, I'm in Queensland and this is just the monthly wet season.
Stop fucking panicking you twats
[QUOTE=Best4bond;34380300]Heres the park near my house!
[IMG]http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/403931_337599582927451_100000322372103_1152820_2145628459_n.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
What park?
:v:
[QUOTE=garychencool;34381408]What park?
:v:[/QUOTE]
its a water park
probably
[QUOTE=garychencool;34381408]What park?
:v:[/QUOTE]
Wet n wild - home location edition
The title is a terrible pun. They were already down under.
[QUOTE=Best4bond;34380300]Heres the park near my house!
[IMG]http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/403931_337599582927451_100000322372103_1152820_2145628459_n.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
Man, that looks so cool. I don't live in a flood area(despite living next to the bay and a marsh and being below sea level) so I haven't experienced the suckiness of a flood. As cool as that looks, I'm guess people don't go play in it because it's full of possibly dangerous debris, it's dirty as fuck, and there might be some washed in crocodiles
More like Queenslake.
[editline]24th January 2012[/editline]
In all seriousness this is a shitty thing to go through, best of luck.
[QUOTE=fruxodaily;34381306]Everybody is over-reacting, I'm in Queensland and this is just the monthly wet season.
Stop fucking panicking you twats[/QUOTE]
Roads go under all the time, and idiots will always find the closest river to drive their car into. This is nothing compared to last year, yet everybody is freaking out about it.
Last year the houses across the street from us went under and we were stuck for a week by flooded roads, this time our pool has gone up about 5cm.
You might say Queensland is going DOWN under.
HOHOHOHOHO
[QUOTE=fruxodaily;34381306]Everybody is over-reacting, I'm in Queensland and this is just the monthly wet season.
Stop fucking panicking you twats[/QUOTE]
Yeah, it's not like it's never happened before
[img]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1893_Brisbane_flood_Queen_St.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=Dr Kevorkian;34380790]I hope we don't have a repeat of last years floods. People have just re-built in the same areas and they are fucked if that happens.[/QUOTE]
People are weird like that.
Tornado? Fuck it, rebuild in the same spot.
Hurricane? Fuck it, rebuild in the same spot.
Mud/Landslide? Fuck it, rebuild as close to the same spot as possible.
business as usual then.
While my issue was never nearly this big, growing up I lived on a flood plain of a fairly large river. Normally the river wouldn't raise up too much, my house was a good 15 feet above the river itself and there was even a stone wall 15 feet tall at the base of the river. One spring, it rained and poured so much, the river flooded, it climbed the 15 feet wall, it went over 35 feet of lawn, and up two stairs and was licking at our porch doors. It flooded our basement and ruined a few ground level rooms of the house, by the end of the night, the water was about 3 inches up the door and we'd sand bagged every inch of every door we could. We had to pick up everything on the ground floor and put it on top of something or it would get wet. The street outside our house, which was about the same level as our house, was quite literally a foot deep in water. We had these old electric gates, and we had to disable those after forcing them open, pushing against hydraulics and water.
I'll admit though, standing on the roof of my house(just for the hell of it) and watching the water swarm around the house was both one of the scarier, and of the cooler things i've ever seen in my life.
Just thought i'd share a flood story. I know my neighbours had it worse being lower elevation and closer to the river than us.
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