With the floods entering Brisbane and immediate evacuations under way in Strathpine and Caboolture north of Brisbane, amid warnings flood levels are expected to be greater than in , power is out for about 15, properties across Queensland's flood ravaged south-east, Energex says. Power is cut to more than properties in the Brisbane Valley communities, up and downstream of the Wivenhoe Dam.
Ms Bligh said "whole families" were unaccounted for after Toowoomba and the Lockyer Valley were deluged yesterday. She said authorities had searched all of the cars that had been swept away in Toowoomba and not located any additional people. The town is like a cyclone has gone through it. There are houses that are completely collapsed, cars that are halfway up trees, homes a kilometre away from where they were.
The other victims were a woman and two children who died in a vehicle at Grantham, a middle-aged man and a young man who died in the Murphys Creek area, and an elderly woman who died in her home at Helidon. An emergency alert has been issued for flash flooding in the areas, warning residents of rapidly rising water levels and property inundation, posing an immediate danger to residents.
A woman and a boy were found dead in the Toowoomba CBD and a man and a boy were killed at nearby Murphys Creek after a massive body of water from weeks of heavy rain tore through Toowoomba, kilometres west of Brisbane, yesterday afternoon. Troy Campbell of James Street Motor Inn in Toowoomba said the dead woman and two boys, believed to be her sons, had been in trouble in front of his motel near the intersection of James and Kitchener streets.
He had held on to the light in the middle of the intersection. The woman, 42, and her son, 13, had been clinging to a tree at the same intersection when they were washed away just after 2pm, The Chronicle in Toowoomba reported.
According to Australia Bureau of Meteorology figures, more than 50 weather station locations in Queensland received over mm of rain in 24 hours. Six locations 4 in the Caboolture area received over mm of rain during that time:.
Breaking News Queensland. Richard Davies is the founder of floodlist. President Declares Disaster for Kentucky Floods. You must be logged in to post a comment. Credit: Andy Zakeli. Lyn Lynch, from Fernvale near Wivenhoe Dam, said many people were still not coping after the devastating flood. Ms Lynch said no warning was given to her area before the gates were opened and her family was lucky to get out. He really struggled a lot.
Please try again later. When a band of storms dumped another mm of the city, it had nowhere to go but through the main streets of the town. The ferocious torrent, described by emergency services as an "inland tsunami", swept away cars and ripped businesses apart. Mother and son Donna and Jordan Rice died after Donna's car stalled in floodwaters.
They climbed onto the vehicle's roof as advised by emergency services. But the rescue rope snapped before Donna and Jordan could be saved - and they were swept to their deaths. A separate wall of water started pouring down the Toowoomba range, devastating the towns of Murphys Creek, Withcott and Grantham.
Residents had to be rescued from rooftops, cars and even trees as the flood caught them off guard. As the floodwaters made their way east, Queensland's oldest provincial city vanished beneath an expanding Bremer River.
Shopfronts in the CBD quickly went under, while in the suburbs, residents scrambled to save what they could as the water rose. Bundamba, Leichhardt, Basin Pocket and Brassall were among a number of suburbs inundated. As homes and businesses went under, animals ran out of dry land. Spotted by helicopter clinging to roofs, a group of people in a boat made the tireless journey back and forward to save horses and cattle. At least 1, homes were affected as the Bremer peaked at Thirty-seven years after the flood of that devastated Brisbane, the River City was once again facing inundation.
Despite being designed for flood mitigation, the Wivenhoe Dam was no match for the sheer amount of water pouring into it. Built in , Wivenhoe was designed to hold just over one million megalitres of drinking water and two million megalitres of temporary floodwater storage, for a total capacity of 3.
Initially expected to cause a minor flood, warnings were quickly upgraded to major. Following the largest ever recorded inflows for the dam, Wivenhoe Dam reached its highest level ever - per cent of normal water supply storage capacity - on January 11,
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