Strathpine to Caboolture have been given Evacuation warnings, along with parts of West End, and some other inner city suburbs. The above map includes suburbs subject to potential flooding.
Estimations put the volume of water comming down the river on par with that of Sydney Harbour!!!
It's expected to break it's banks and reach a peak sometime between now and tommorow Lunchtime.
Major road closures and detours are prevelant throughout the city, everyone who lives in or around Brisbane, please stay safe, and listen to your radio for updates or evacuation orders.
soooooo much water.....
Edit: Updated List of Suburbs at risk;
•Albion •Auchenflower •Bowen Hills •Brisbane City •Bulimba •Chelmer •Coorparoo •East Brisbane •Fairfield •Fig Tree Pocket •Fortitude Valley •Graceville •Hemmant •Indooroopilly •Kangaroo Point •Lytton •Milton •Moggill •Murrarie •New Farm •Newstead •Norman Park •Oxley •Pinkenba •Rocklea •Sherwood •South Brisbane •Tennyson •Yeronga •Yerongpilly •Wacol •West End •Windsor
Edit again:
Just updated that the Weather department is predicting that this will be WORSE than the 74 floods, which killed a bunch of people. Stay safe everyone.
Yeh until Sunday I was in East Brisbane, about 5 mins from the Brisbane River and my house was literally in the bottom of a valley...
Thankfully my lease just ended and im temporarily back on the Gold Coast with my parents where its a lot safer from flooding...
Keep in mind, that with flooding in toowoomba above, the water level rose 3 meters in 10minutes so it can come up rapidly - keep your eyes/ears open and stay safe people still in Brisbane
On January 11 2011 11:25 a176 wrote: I dont get why people dont move their cars?
Because the water came up over the carpark in less than a minute? It's called flash flooding for a reason. By the time most people found out the water would have gone already.
Stay safe guys, not sure about Melbourne but the regional areas in Victoria where I am at the moment it's pretty damn wet today. I'm born and bred in Toowoomba and grew up in Brisbane so I hope all is OK for all.
I live in Fairfield, Brisbane (affected area) and people are stocking up on Food/Supplies @ Coles. Apparently West End got completed owned this morning, the worst is still yet to come.
The dams are overflowing, the river is swelling, and the rain shows no sign of stopping. :S
Even the river by the CBD is starting to come up, I was in the restaurant of the hotel having lunch and hundreds of people are leaving their offices going home. Everyone is still fairly orderly, people just don't want to get stuck going home, quite a few roads are going to close down soon due to flooding.
I don't know much about Queensland, but apparently a few of the rivers here are going to rise to an all time record in the next 48 hours.
On January 11 2011 12:47 Energies wrote: I don't know much about Queensland, but apparently a few of the rivers here are going to rise to an all time record in the next 48 hours.
I doubt anyone here was even alive when this happened Last time, but in 1974 The Brisbane River broke it's banks, Flooded the crap out of everything and killed several people.
This time 8 people Confirmed dead around Toowoomba so far, 73 Missing.
That is the Indooroopilly Bridge after the 74 Floods. Ordinarily the water level is about 6 metres below that!
And I'm pretty sure the second one is KP after 74.
On January 11 2011 11:25 a176 wrote: I dont get why people dont move their cars?
People literally went in to do their shopping and when they come out the carpark is submerged. On the news it showed some footage where a guy was changing his tyres into 4WD (just turns the wheel nut) that took about 30 seconds, and by the time he sat in the front seat the water was almost up to the top of his tyres.
I live in Chinchilla, about 4 hours west of Brissy and that almost happened to my car. By the time we found out there was flooding it was brushing the bottom of my car, but thankfully I got it moved in time. It just felt like a solid wall of water falling out of the sky, in about 3 seconds flat in the rain you were saturated, I've never seen anything like it.
The worst part for us is that we only just finished cleaning up after the last flood 2 weeks ago! But no-where has had the flash flooding like Toowoomba and the Lockyer Valley has. They were calling it an inland tsunami, and I reckon that description is almost spot on.
It's crazy, there's flooding from the top to bottom of Queensland, and getting worse.
On January 11 2011 11:00 stickyickynugz wrote: the world is crying out for us to change our ways. everyone stay strong.
Also, that's kinda BS, because we're not even at record flood heights yet anyway. Hopefully we just won't have any more lives lost.
EPT
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