Mid North Queensland floods?

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Roger G

hi I'm from CQ.
We've getting a bit up here (flooding). I know that many others have suffered losses more than we. Still so far, there's been no resultant loss of life reported.
You have to look at the bright side. As hard as it sounds, this is the rain the eastern states of Oz needed. The ground in so many places is soaked - no more will soak in. Most of Nth Q and CQ rivers systems filled - with a flow on effect (parden the pun) into NSW.
Many rivers of the state like the Flinders, Burdekin, Diamantina, Thomson, Barcoo, Belyando, Mackenzie, Fitzroy Rivers and more were and are filled. And the Warrego and Darling feeding into the Murray-Darling basin - right down the back blocks of NSW where for years parts of the Darling were near dry.

It's probably no enough to declare the drought broken, (though in some parts you could) but it's a serious in-road into it.
This may be the rain (or some of it) that many were praying for.

bilbobagsend

Sorry mate but i'm from the hot West aust hot and dry we are its another near 40 egree day here hope you are all hanging in there its tuff up there lived in cairns for a few years

gaz

Hi spy, I am a lucky one not up there, not far from you actually. I have never experienced anything like it and don't want too. I too feel for all those people, what they must be going through, and you too, previously, how do you cope, what do you do,. It must be so frightening when actually happening, then when it calms down, you have to do the clean up and count your losses.scary.

Froggie

We used to live in Townsville and it was terrifying when the cyclones came, we were living in a caravan park at the time and I used to walk the car in (the water was up to my thighs), so I would find the shallowest parts and my partner would drive through that way. I know it was plenty scary then, my father in laws place went under all the time it was devasting, they never had insurance and in the end moved to collinsville where their daughter lives and it doesnt flood there. there is 7 kids, 1 in canberra, 2 in brisbane, 1 collinsville, 1 charters towers, 2 townsville, so everytime there are flood the phones and computer are running hot to see if they are okay.

nookie181

G`day , Spy .... don`t think you`ll get too much response from Charleville and surrounds for about a week or more.....no power = no computors/lap-tops and such.
and i don`t believe that any-one who has been `evacuated` , will be considering getting on here..!
Great to see you are Concerned for us fellow Qld`ers , but give them time to get over the Drama going on now.
i`m ex-Townsville , so i can relate to the water thing , in a big way. and don`t forget that Telstra is getting rid of CDMA , so those that don`t have Next-G , will be with-out `phone Contact to those they care about and Answers will be the LAST thing on their minds.......flooding is a Trauma , believe me..!

AGAIN , much "Respect" to you for your Genuine Concern.
as Qld`ers will always have for each other.

Ken E

I was born in Emerald and lived there till I was 11. I passed by the place on 22 December but only went a short way into the town. When I left in 1960 were only 1200 people in the town.

Now the population is more like 10,000. The flood in 1953 was higher, it went over the rails on the railway bridge that time, though I was too young to remember. This time it did not go over the rails as far as I know but it did come close. Few houses were affected then as there were few houses in low-lying areas.

In the late 1950s there were a few high floods, the old road bridge, which was a lot lower than the more recent one went under water at least twice that I remember.

Most of the homes and businesses affected have been built fairly recently and were in lower areas and worse, built on ground level with slab construction. The older houses were all up on timber or concrete poles and you could walk around under some of them. You can bet that few or none of them had water through them. Our old house was on Theresa Street, not far from the Anglican Church, and though it was on low poles I would say it had no water in it, or even in the yard.
It is still there, you can actually see it on Google Earth.

Emerald is pretty flat but some areas are higher than others.

On the western side of the older part of town there was a small swamp, a low lying area which had a small patch of bullrushes when I was a kid. That is where one of the main shopping centres was built about 20 years ago. Cheap land.

And that is why there was flood water in that shopping centre.

doitnow

hi spy no i live local in brissy so we are okay too humid though ,but we have got water to last now to at least april so the drought has br.oke a little

Drop short and duck

I only know what you do as I am in Victoria and the bushfires are just about out now or should be till next time maybe.

Weather is warm most days with the usually sinking hot northerly then swinging back to the South with cold fronts turning the weather into fierce storms as per usual.

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