Floods in North Queensland

There is another severe weather update for further heavy rain and a flood warning for NQ.

It is something that happens here from time to time, no one makes a fuss we just help each other and try to live. Same with the bushfires. Most years there will be cyclones etc up north and fires down south. This time they are particularly bad and our hearts go out to those people who are displaced. I know all those areas well, it is where we go up for a holiday. Very beautiful in normal times.

Really really sad/awful
Happy times spent in Cairns and Townsville 🥲

It's the food trucks which have been unable to get through to N Queensland.
Supermarket shelves were empty fairly quickly but those supermarkets stocking locally grown produce still had plenty. A salutary lesson.

Sixty food trucks were heading towards Cairns after the Army were called in to build a temporary bridge, two trucks overturned (the roads are broken up).
Food is being transported up the coast by barges.

It seems that the floods are now abated, but my heart goes out to those returning to clear up : it will be a horrible and melancholy task.

My middle son and family live in Queensland but thankfully only had the tail end of the floods 🙏

Yes, Brisbane hasn't 'coppped it' this time, thank goodness, but Innisfail northwards is having a bad time.

Another woman has died; her body was found in a flooded cane paddock. She was seen by a neighbour the evening before and was in a two storey house but when the neighbour returned the following morning she wasn't in the house.

Finally heard back from DS in Brisbane.

Of course we're OK, Mum.
Same distance to Townsville as for you to Lisbon.

Difficult to comprehend, isn't it?

There are videos appearing on my FB page.
A couple of men were driving a small car through floodwater, the car was submerged so they had abandoned the car and trying to wade through, where to I don't know. Footage taken from the helicopter sent to rescue them.

Yes Allira, the clean up will take a long time. The awful smells, the loss of precious things, the nervousness for years afterwards.
Not easy.

I think it's Townsville north to Cairns this time.

Ingham has been very badly hit, according to video from the Ambulance Service on Facebook ☹

Friends moved to OZ from California because of fires a few years back. They are moving to QL to avoid huge property prices in Sidney area. Fingers crossed for them.

The big clean up afterwards was helped by the army who dealt with mud, sewage, dead animals and much more.

The clean up afterwards will take a long time. The mould seems to persist once it takes hold, no matter how well and how many times it's cleaned.

Apparently some areas have had six months' worth of rain in three days.

We lived in Brisbane during the big 1974 flood caused by Cyclone Wanda. Devastating for so many.
The big clean up afterwards was helped by the army who dealt with mud, sewage, dead animals and much more.
The population came together to scrub walls, donate furniture and generally put life back together.
The worst flood in Brisbane was 1893, a bit before my time.
The flooding in the north will be devastating for everyone involved. I hope the same coming together and camaraderie that existed in 1974 still exists.
The added danger from crocodiles is awful too.
My thoughts are with the people of north Queensland and any worried family here.

One of my daughters was in Townsville last week with her work. The heaviest rainfall ever recorded apparently.

Allira our Aussie contingent are in Victoria, mostly in and around Melbourne and Port Melbourne.

Yes, wildlife will be in peril, apart from the crocodiles of course which are probably loving it.

That’s an unimaginable amount of rain in such a short period of time. It must have wiped out a lot of wildlife and vegetation as well as the impact on people living there. We are so lucky with the weather comparatively in the UK.

GrannyGravy13

Dreadful seeing the footage on the news last night.

It’s an area we have visited many times.

We've got family and friends in the North, GrannyGravy.

"Record" downpours are set to continue, authorities say, with parts of the region already experiencing almost 1.3m (4.2ft) of rain since Saturday, causing rivers and reservoirs to overflow.

Efforts to assist the hardest-hit areas have been hindered by flood damage to parts of the Bruce Highway - the main thoroughfare stretching 1,673km (1039 miles) from the state's south.

This included the partial collapse of a bridge that could add an extra 700km to driving routes and slow down the delivery of critical supplies, the Queensland Trucking Association told the ABC.
BBC 3/2/25
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp3j2w41qkko

Over 4 feet (1.3 metres) of rain since Saturday!

Dreadful seeing the footage on the news last night.

It’s an area we have visited many times.

I honestly think most governments seem to be paying it lip service abitbarmy and now we have Trump and "Drill, baby drill"!

We travelled in that area a few years ago following on from their last bad floods, so they have been in my thoughts. So much of Australia is becoming much harder to live in, like other parts of the world also. How much worse do things have to get before governments take real action?

No comments?

Fires in California attract several threads but floods in Australia none?

All part of our changing climate as it becomes more extreme, which will affect the future of the planet and of future generations.

Yet eight years on from Brexit, which is a mere blip in the history of just part of the world if you put it into context, attracts thread after thread.