Jan-11-2011, 12:30 PM (UTC)
I just came on to give you a cooee and see how things are going for you, Liquid Ice. SO glad to hear you are okay!! I have been thinking of you while watching the telly...
I drove from here down through Dalby, Kilcoy etc all day and night on Thursday. Got to the Sunshine Coast on Friday morning, slept, and then got the earliest flight I possibly could out of Brisbane on Saturday morning to Longreach, to try and avoid running into all of the rain that was forecast down in the south-east over the weekend. I figured if I didn't get out then, I wasn't going to!! I was very lucky to get down there in the first place, let alone back!
The Bureau of Meteorology warned at least six months ago that it would be Queensland's biggest wet season in over thirty years and they were right on the money (especially with waters going to peak in Brissie that will be higher than the '74 floods). I've been preparing ever since I first heard that forecast (my pantry and coldroom are chockers!) but the big rain has not fallen near us yet. While we have been stuck for short periods fairly recently, we had far more rain over the three previous Christmases than the one we've just had. Still, rain is forecast for here over the coming weekend so maybe it's the north's turn?!
Apparently Caboolture has been evacuated? My son couldn't start his pilot course yesterday as there was water flooding the flying school building but all was okay for him today. He says he's "pretty well up on a hill so should be right". I am so glad he is staying with a family and not just in an apartment all by himself or something!
My mother and father-in-law are bunking in with other people for the night (not long off the phone to them) and they don't expect their cars and things will be there in the morning. My sister lives not far from them but I'm not sure what she's dealing with at the moment. One of my brother-in-laws has had a torrent of water under his house but was able to get to a friend's house with his wife and young family. Lots of other friends and family around Toowoomba and Brisbane...
I couldn't believe the footage, especially of Toowoomba...scary stuff. Keep us up-to-date with how you're doing, won't you?
I drove from here down through Dalby, Kilcoy etc all day and night on Thursday. Got to the Sunshine Coast on Friday morning, slept, and then got the earliest flight I possibly could out of Brisbane on Saturday morning to Longreach, to try and avoid running into all of the rain that was forecast down in the south-east over the weekend. I figured if I didn't get out then, I wasn't going to!! I was very lucky to get down there in the first place, let alone back!
The Bureau of Meteorology warned at least six months ago that it would be Queensland's biggest wet season in over thirty years and they were right on the money (especially with waters going to peak in Brissie that will be higher than the '74 floods). I've been preparing ever since I first heard that forecast (my pantry and coldroom are chockers!) but the big rain has not fallen near us yet. While we have been stuck for short periods fairly recently, we had far more rain over the three previous Christmases than the one we've just had. Still, rain is forecast for here over the coming weekend so maybe it's the north's turn?!
Apparently Caboolture has been evacuated? My son couldn't start his pilot course yesterday as there was water flooding the flying school building but all was okay for him today. He says he's "pretty well up on a hill so should be right". I am so glad he is staying with a family and not just in an apartment all by himself or something!
My mother and father-in-law are bunking in with other people for the night (not long off the phone to them) and they don't expect their cars and things will be there in the morning. My sister lives not far from them but I'm not sure what she's dealing with at the moment. One of my brother-in-laws has had a torrent of water under his house but was able to get to a friend's house with his wife and young family. Lots of other friends and family around Toowoomba and Brisbane...
I couldn't believe the footage, especially of Toowoomba...scary stuff. Keep us up-to-date with how you're doing, won't you?
"I am the Catalyst, and I came to change all things. Prophets become warriors, dragons hunt as wolves."
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