There are so many ways that this set of floods could be even worse:

• The rain stopped on Tuesday night. If it had kept raining in the catchment and down in the city, the water would have been higher and faster, and rescue crews would have had a much more difficult time. The sunshine has been very, very welcome.
• It's early January. This is the ( Read more... )

This is a copy of Brisbane City Council's high-tide innundation map for today. I have added the labels, so my apologies if some of them are incorrect ( Read more... )

There's no flooding worse than a lot of puddles where I live, but parts of the city centre are very soggy this afternoon, and there are evacuations happening in a few places, especially up towards the Sunshine Coast. If you've seen the news at all, you'll know Toowoomba and the townships downstream were very badly hit yesterday afternoon, so please ( Read more... )