So Dry, Really Need More Rain.........

[33GTRV]

Jeesus fcuk we had some rain! i recorded over 900mm in 2 days! Hope you lot close to the border are ready, this is pretty full on. I cant get to the farm, the river is approx 4 metres over the bridge, awonga dam has been going over for ages and last night it peaked at over 7 metres over! Good thing we have campbell newman to clean up the state...........maybe

[mad082]

we've had over 300mm since yesterday morning in gympie. has cleared now (still a bit of cloud about, but no rain since lunch time). we are isolated though. highway is cut north and south, east and west. we are expecting a flood peak of about 21m (the river doesn't break the banks till about 11m). but gympie is a town used to floods, so not many houses are affect, but half the CBD goes under water. this is our 3rd flood in 3 years. this time last year i was at work in noosa when the highway was cut. managed to get home the following day by taking a heap of back roads

[xALmoN]

i guess you guys are used to it?

but that aside, i hope you guys take the necessary precautions and stay safe.

[t5iv]

It's pretty wild up here. The biggest problem seems to be the morons on the road. So busy focusing on the road that they don't indicate or brake properly. Drove me nuts!

[babyskyline]

Bundaberg is pretty much cut off from the north and south now and much of the town is underwater. It will be worse than the 2010/2011 floods by mignight tonight peaking around 8.5. (it was 7.95 during the 2010/2011 floods)

We just got power back on after 30 hours out at bargara after a few tornados hit yesterday at lunch time. Many houses are missing walls and roofs now and the local shopping centre is missing a fair chunk of it's roof.

I live roughly 500m up the road from where the tornados went though at bargara and we were lucky enough to not have any damage but some people were definitely not as lucky.

[mad082]

My brother lives in Bundy, but he's on the south west side (not far from where the highway comes into town). He doesn't get affect by the flooding and didn't get any of the tornados, etc. Said it was pretty darn windy even where he is though.

Got pretty windy in Gympie last night though. There were unconfirmed reports of tornados here. When I went into the kitchen this morning one of the screens from a window had been blown out, and another was half out.

[babyskyline]

Yeah we have an investment house in the higher parts of bundy that is fine and will never flood but so many other parts of bundy are just so easily swallowed up by floods. Some parts of the town just should not have anything other than parks in them. We know our tenants really well and they said the wind was fairly intense in town too.

A lot of the winds down in gympie would have been just the intense wind we had out at bargara on friday night and all day saturday but it is definitely the right conditions to have tornados. A lot of trees were just pushed over from the wind and they were not small trees at all.

Most were a good 15-20m tall and the ground was just that soft that they were knocked over pretty easily.

A few houses down from us lost a few windows on saturday that were blown out by the winds too.

[Captain Natro]

Shits not looking to crash hot here in gatton, all the bridges are over and granthams Main Streets under again... Stupid car is also bogged

[babyskyline]

Shits not looking to crash hot here in gatton, all the bridges are over and granthams Main Streets under again... Stupid car is also bogged

I had the same problem in the last floods.

Got the skyline bogged while doing a u-turn in a part of town where the sealed road wasn't the full width of the road. 3 hours of waiting for the tow truck later.....

[Captain Natro]

Mmm it's not the skyline it's the daily diahatsu but still stupid thing...

[mad082]

took this pic today. it's the park behind the main street of gympie. at the time i took it (about lunch time), the water wasn't into this park and was about 1.5m below the level of this tree. it's now under water.

[t5iv]

It's simply quite amazing how quickly pools of water can fill up!

[mad082]

24 hours later, here's a pic of that same tree

[666DAN]

Tree fail.....lucky it didn't hit anything I care about

[mad082]

a few other pics of gympie

somewhere under there is the highway, and my way to work......

the aircon units you can see are on the roof of the telstra shop

the main street of gympie

the rotunda in the park behind the main street (same park as the fallen tree)

[defari]

Epic photos

[Cadmoon]

Damn Gympie is copping it.

[TM7GTR]

Nek Minnit

[666DAN]

I have this strange sense of déjà vu with the (mis)reporting of the flood updates, the SEQ dam levels last reported at midnight, yet showing 5am *cough* whatever....wonder what the REAL level is.

Riverside restaurants being told that they were spared in 2011, yet expect to get done over this year (even though the peak is 2m lower????) by the SES personnel.

The water grid overall has had a longer and larger deluge than 2011, the catchment is still flowing, the creeks have been pre-saturated by dam releases (funnily enough the dam is now closed)

Newman reports the river levels are dropping...err technically yes as it was low tide just before 5pm he made the call at 2pm, but now levels are actually going up and peaking both tonight at 10:40pm and tomorrow at 10:40am

So I call shenanigans, this is possibly going to be a serious flood again, and wait for it.......be bigger than 2011, Newman is covering up!

[defari]

^^^ was thinking the same thing