Toowoomba's a wreck

[jonesyedxr6]

I work and go to uni and Toowoomba and i have to say that no one predicted anything close to the magnitude of this flood, down town is an absolute mess and the whole place is scattered with debris. Luckily where i was on the industrial side of town we are up pretty high and weren't effected too much but down town i have heard of plenty of mates and their parents losing cars.

Hoping everyone who lives in toowoomba and the surrounding area's have come out OK and their vehicles are not damaged!

Here's something i found of youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt-FT...layer_embedded
the commentary is appalling

[TheInterceptor]

Yeah i came home this evening and saw this on the telly, just devastating. I hope nobody were in any of those cars...

[jonesyedxr6]

Hundreds of cars and buildings are wrecked, mate of mine's mum works at a Herritage bank, reckons they was swamped with hundreds of calls for insurance, declined the lot

carpark

[TheInterceptor]

Originally Posted by jonesyedxr6

Hundreds of cars and buildings are wrecked, mate of mine's mum works at a Herritage bank, reckons they was swamped with hundreds of calls for insurance, declined the lot

carpark

Wow, no words can describe.

[Road_Warrior]

Poor bastards. And those people in Gympie and Rockhampton.

Having just come back from Carnarvon in WA which also flooded 2 weeks ago, I noticed that the further the waters travelled, the more damage it did. Is this how it works??

[TheKing]

The floods are truly horrible and i cant help but also wonder about the number of classic cars in sheds that will get wiped out :(

[Jim Goose]

Originally Posted by TheKing

The floods are truly horrible and i cant help but also wonder about the number of classic cars in sheds that will get wiped out :(

Or the four people who were washed away?...
How about we spare a thought for their families

(Other thread already running the bar.. wet xmas for qld)

[rodderz]

There's going to be some real bad news tomorrow when more stories come out, the power of that deluge was unbelievable. My wifes relo's are in Gatton and they said the area is very badly damaged. Roads washed away, cars stuck in drains, houses half gone and people missing.

Drought one year, the opposite the next

[jonesyedxr6]

I'd hate to live in Gatton right now, there was apparently meant to be a 7m was off water heading down to the Gatton/lockyer area from the range late this afternoon, low lying areas of Gatton were being evacuated i thought, range is still closed i believe from landslides

[dannyhilton]

Originally Posted by jonesyedxr6

Luckily where i was on the industrial side of town we are up pretty high and weren't effected too much but down town i have heard of plenty of mates and their parents losing cars.

Same. Thankfully they built to Wilsonton Industrial Estate on high ground and not in the middle of a gully. Posted this in the QLD Flood thread, but for anyone interested, here's some snaps I took this afternoon of the remains of Toowoomba. As the majority of Toowoomba is high, most of the town was spared from any major flooding. You don't need Facebook to look at these either


http://www.facebook.com/album.php?ai...6&l=0464a50588

[nstg8a]

some reports are saying it went from 7 metres to over ten... scary stuff.

[csv8]

The floods are really bad. Wheres this global warming!!!!!!My condolences to everyone state wide..

[turboxf]

Originally Posted by csv8

The floods are really bad. Wheres this global warming!!!!!!My condolences to everyone state wide..

Hey mate the global warming is the thing behind these crazy happenings all over the world , didn't you know the oceans are rising because the seas are heating up. we in VICTORIA are starting to get warm rain rather than our cold rain & our climate is becoming like queensland wet & muggy rather than the dry heat we use to get, in central victoria, melbourne was always humid but when i shifted to the bendigo area in 1989 it was always dry heat , one thing about this humidity we are experiencing is that the fruit & vegies are well ahead of what they should be for growing.
the el ninya the dry one has gone replaced by el linya the wet one.

I have been watching the news the last few days & the devastation the floods did to small towns plus the inland tsunami did was huge it came & went & left families devastated with the loss of children. & missing families.
The crocks & snakes must be a worry being swept along!

I thought the PAKISTAN floods were bad , this wet cycle could top them , but lets hope not the death numbers.

cheers

[turboxf]

Looking at those vids it was lucky the town wasn't hit harder, plus with more deluges to come it isn't looking that good for the lower regions of BRISBANE

We have had rain on & off for 3 days straight but not like what you guys are experiencing , keep dry & safe & help as many families out you can , this is a time for all aussies to help out any way they can, as the state & fed gov, said, it is going to take money & determination to get queensland & the food bowl back to what it was.

cheers

[Keepleft]

Originally Posted by turboxf

Hey mate the global warming is the thing behind these crazy happenings all over the world , didn't you know the oceans are rising because the seas are heating
cheers

It's now "climate change". We are cooling.

These events have happened in in recorded history, (and not just this area of corse) including well before 74, the 74 episode arose as a result of a tropical cyclone dropping in excess of 600mm of rain in a short period, this event has been a more gradual build up in regards drenching rain coupled with a super natural drenching, see Weatherzone forums.

Regardless, awful.

The PAK floods displaced some 13 million. 20 million if you believe Wiki.

[JG34JA]

Originally Posted by Keepleft

It's now "climate change". We are cooling.

These events have happened in in recorded history, (and not just this area of corse) including well before 74, the 74 episode arose as a result of a tropical cyclone dropping in excess of 600mm of rain in a short period, this event has been a more gradual build up in regards drenching rain coupled with a super natural drenching, see Weatherzone forums.

Regardless, awful.

The PAK floods displaced some 13 million. 20 million if you believe Wiki.

...and even in pre-recorded history. I remember standing overlooking the plain around Karratha, and told of an indigenous story where the WHOLE landscape I saw was in flood. There are many stories such as this - Tiddalik the frog is read to children as a book. (Any members in the NW who know the Karratha tale better, feel free to amend).

My grandfather farmed cane on the Sunshine Coast. He knew the back paddock flooded about every 20 years, and stories existed of 50 year huge floods. We have always been puzzled that Grandad's back paddock is now filled with housing development...

Australia is a land of violent floods and harsh droughts. Our climatic model works more to the beat of El Nino / La Nina rather than Europe's predictable Summer-Autumn-Winter-Spring pattern. This has been suggested as the reason agriculture did not develop in Australia to a large scale (although Aborigines on the West Coast planted Yam like vegetables in the Dongara area, something I discovered researching a History degree, and used the extensive Murray wetlands for trapping fish) until Europeans began farming in the last 220 years. Personally I find it difficult to ascertain whether or not Global Warming/Climate Change/Greenhouse Effect is responsible when such utter extremes tend to occur and to such devastating levels. The variance is too huge; the data sample too little in the realm of aural history in Australia. Yes recently there has been change, but all dynamic systems operate in flux.

My thoughts to all those in QLD who are affected: may your families be safe, may your property and life's work be redeemed.

To finish, here are a few lines by Dorothea Mackellar written around the turn of the 20th Century after the Federation Drought (the settlers knew the nature of the country!):

I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror –
The wide brown land for me!

[turboxf]

Originally Posted by Keepleft

It's now "climate change". We are cooling.

These events have happened in in recorded history, (and not just this area of corse) including well before 74, the 74 episode arose as a result of a tropical cyclone dropping in excess of 600mm of rain in a short period, this event has been a more gradual build up in regards drenching rain coupled with a super natural drenching, see Weatherzone forums.

Regardless, awful.

The PAK floods displaced some 13 million. 20 million if you believe Wiki.

I thought a knowledgable bloke like you would have got the gist of what i was saying about the PAKI floods, by per capita Queensland could top there floods, as most of the houses over there were shanties in crop fields where over here the houses are more substantial to be saved after the flood, plus Pakistan have a huge population where Queensland don't.

Looking at the BRISBANE river live on tv now with all the icon structures under water & the peak still hasn't been reached, this is going to be huge dollar wise & infrastructure wise , plus with a treatment plant broken up & spewing sewerage into the river there will be waterborne issues arising, there already telling residents to boil there water.

cheers

[dave289]

Originally Posted by csv8

The floods are really bad. Wheres this global warming!!!!!!My condolences to everyone state wide..

global warming, global cooling, this is nothing more than a natural occurance ,like it was in 74 and like it was in the 1800's. The mentally unstable will try to tell us that if we all stopped using our toasters this would never have happened.

Just like before they will rebuild , hopefully for all concerned the sooner the better.

[rodderz]

Scary thing is, there is still nearly 2 months left of high wet season left.

Another cyclone or tropical low will see it happen again to already saturated soil

[dannyhilton]

Originally Posted by rodderz

Scary thing is, there is still nearly 2 months left of high wet season

Even scarier is some of the places who usually really cop this early New Year wet season (my parents for example, in North Queensland) have already had 16 inches of rain. For the past 20 or so years, the wet season began just after New Year. They had 15 inches before New Year in 2010, starting in October. If history serves correct, it should be ****ing down up there right now, cutting off roads and flooding the land. It's dry and sunny as I type this. The rain we got in Toowoomba yesterday is what they expect this time of year.

The world is bring turned upside down, then shaken again.

[mik]

i just watched the late news , very scarey stuff, for the people that live in the low lying area`s, they must be tuff as nails, imagine living in an area with a history of floods and knowing your gonna cop it.

[Jim Goose]

From a facebook site...



http://www.facebook.com/#!/photo.php?fbid=137554899637838&set=a.1375528929713 72.25517.137549059638422&pid=230534&id=13754905963 8422

[jonesyedxr6]

8 people dead, more than 20 missing as far as i know.

AT the moment where i live about 20minutes towards Warwick from Toowoomba i'm completely stranded from this mornings rain, no one in all the surrounding areas can move - more rain to come.

[sxckevo]

Originally Posted by jonesyedxr6

8 people dead, more than 20 missing as far as i know.

AT the moment where i live about 20minutes towards Warwick from Toowoomba i'm completely stranded from this mornings rain, no one in all the surrounding areas can move - more rain to come.

take it easy mate, this is just crazy it breaks my heart seeing it on tv :( ive got the week off and could probably take another couple off to come volunteer but i don't know where to start

[geckoGT]

I am going onto night shift tonight and with the warnings of flooding due to hit Ipswich and the Brisbane area in the next 24 hrs I suspect my next 2 night shifts are going to busy ones.

Bowhill rd Darra is just outside our station and was closed all yesterday due to flooding. After watching people driving around the blockade (mostly heroes in 4WD's) all day yesterday this flooding that is soon to hit Ipswich and Brisbane is a major worry.

I just ask that all that read this, please do not try to cross flooded roads for any reason. If the road is flooded, find another way or find somewhere to stay the night. Please do not put your life at risk or the lives of your family just for the sake of getting somewhere. Make no mistake, the conditions coming down onto us are dangerous and lives may be lost.

My hope is that all here, their families and friends, stay safe over the next few days/weeks.

To those in Toowoomba, my thoughts are with you and hope you have the strength to come out of this tragedy and see the sun shine again.

[KYSBF]

Take it easy out there geckoGT.
Thanks to you and all of your counterparts.

Regards

[The Monty]

8 dead, and 72 missing ATM. Including unconfirmed reports of 10 children in a day care, noone can ge tin, or out.
Our factory in Morningside is expected to be inundated tomorow with the high tide.
Scary thing for us is, Wivenhoe Dam is 173% full. Its max capacity is 200% before it overflows. Inflows are almost 10 times the amount being released.
Also, our biggest king tides for the year are in the next couple of days.

[XR6_661]

A friend that drive trucks is posting on facebook saying that Ipswich is expecting 20m peak...That's phenomenal! Comms towers are out as well?

Anyone confirm?

[Sam_Boss260]

Originally Posted by XR6_661

A friend that drive trucks is posting on facebook saying that Ipswich is expecting 20m peak...That's phenomenal! Comms towers are out as well?

Anyone confirm?

Yeah, my brother works for Telstra in the comms tower area, and he said this mroning that they have lost a few towers already

[Sam_Boss260]

Whilst we aren't in Toowoomba, we have taken the warning and working from home today, the boss sent us all home. Our office - on Queen St has an underground carpark which is usually flooded with heavy rain and we are in the low part of the City. So with all these flood warnings in the CBD we are all working from today and tomorrow.

Thoughts go out to anyone in the Toowoomba / Gattan region.