The Big Wet
So, the Brisbane River is starting to bust at the seams, with the Riverside walkways under and bike tracks next to the river under. West End is flooding and a list of 30 suburbs at threat has been posted. Caboolture, outside of Brisbane, is completely cut off - they're evacuating via the air at this point.
My bridge at 12pm:
That tree in the middle, usually safely on the bank, was completely under when I came back through at 2.
Water is up over the pipe now. Hope my awesome landlady can make it back over. :/ If it's supposed to be worse tomorrow and Thursday, then I'll likely be cut off for a few days. Hopefully the water wont get contaminated and the power will stay on. *fingers crossed*
It is STILL RAINING, that water from Toowoomba that went through the Lockyer Valley and Grantham is about to fetch up in the River and Wyvenhoe Dam is at 170% capacity. Campbell Newman or Anna Bligh said they'd be opening the floodgates to stop the dam from breaching (that would be a disaster, yes), so a hell of a lot of water is going to come down the river at some point, probably tomorrow.
I'm fine at this stage. Just hoping everybody along the river is ok.
ETA: Live Ustream of the Brisbane river. Quite dramatic footage of boats dancing around the debris about ten minutes ago. You can see the current going DAMN fast.
:(
Jaydeyn