Flood Map

[i_autumnheart]

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

Comments

[stmargarets]

Whoa - I can see how six inches of rain could do a lot of mischief with all that unoccupied high ground. 20.5 meters! That's a scary amount of water.

[i_autumnheart]

Everything west of Ipswich is farmland and scrub, with a few tiny villages, then the Great Dividing Range rises in pretty much one long escarpment just to the west of this map, which is where the flash floods went through on Monday. Any rain up there kind of only has one place to go.

The Bremer river in Ipswich is in a fairly deep cut (more minor floods are pretty normal around there, but yes - it's a *lot* higher than I ever want to find myself in the way of.