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Fmr President & Senator Polnut
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« on: January 10, 2011, 06:28:13 PM »
It really is shocking...considering Toowoomba is higher up than Canberra, there's so much water it now apparently needs to go up hill.

So it seems the 'inland tsunami' came down from Toowoomba and swept through the Lockyer Valley. The Brisbane River is swollen and the ferry and city cats have stopped running as most of their stops are already under water... as Brisbane has the combination of a LOT of rain, as well as controlled releases from the Wivenhoe Dam (which was built after the 1974 flood as a preventative), the dam is currently at 140% capacity.
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Fmr President & Senator Polnut
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« Reply #1 on: January 10, 2011, 07:11:13 PM »
and now... the Lockyer Valley wall of water... is now heading straight for Wivenhoe Dam, which now, is at 176% capacity... this is about to get messy for Brisbane
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« Reply #2 on: January 10, 2011, 08:55:07 PM »
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/01/11/3110450.htm

And the Brisbane River has broken it's banks at West End to the SW of the CBD... it will reach major flood level tomorrow and rise again on Thursday.... this might be on par with 1974 at this rate...
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« Reply #3 on: January 10, 2011, 10:47:54 PM »
They have now upped the release from the Wivenhoe Dam to 344,000 megalitres... with potential to increase to more than half-a million megalitres...

They now think some portions of Brisbane will face worse conditions than the '74 flooding.
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« Reply #4 on: January 10, 2011, 11:20:44 PM »
http://media.smh.com.au/national/national-news/watch-how-flash-flood-grew-in-minutes-2127942.html
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« Reply #5 on: January 12, 2011, 01:31:24 AM »
So it appears to have broken the walls at Southbank, and the lower-lying levels of the CBD (including an AMAZING patiserie) is already 0.5 metre underwater, with another 1.2 metres expected.

Thankfully the people I know in Brisbane are not in affected areas...
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« Reply #6 on: January 12, 2011, 07:06:10 PM »
Le Bon Choix, just diagonally across from Customs House.
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« Reply #7 on: January 12, 2011, 07:16:56 PM »
http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/blogs/blunt-instrument/has-anna-bligh-earned-herself-a-second-chance/20110113-19ojm.html

It looks like Anna Bligh may have given herself a second-chance politically.

And frankly, I think she's done an amazing job.
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