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Floods have hit brisbane today I hear.

How is everyone?

My prayers go out to you.

I live in the western suburbs of Brisbane and we border Pullen Pullen Creek and have had our fence flattened by flood waters in 08 & 09 and then we were app 2.5 metres above the water to our floor level then.
Don't know what the level was in the 74 flood was here but we are told that it will exceed it by a fair bit.
The Staz is in Minden (at Lees workshop getting a new billet steel flywheel and clutch reco as well but it is up on a hoist at head ht) which is in the Lockyer Valley and water has come onto the property there.
Spoke to Lee today and they are marooned with the road shortly before his street 2 metres under so fingers xxx for both places to survive.
So much for climate change and the planet heating up as it has been the coolest,wettest summer in my 70 odd years.

PS we have flood insurance and the Staz is covered for 12k and I have salvage rights but hey I really don't want to have to lodge a claim on either the house or car

Wow, that's incredible what's happening. Hope everyone gets through okay. 36 yrs since the last big one in Ipswich...

Hoping everything is ok with your place, family and the car Rad, these natural disasters are starting to get a bit too frequent for my liking!
And hope everyone else here and their families near Brisbane are ok too.

Not much of a birthday present is it...?

i hope everything turns out ok there rad .

Yer Rad, I hope you are all ok, should we hijack this thread and talk about what a load of government tax motivated propaganda global warming is ( oops sorry "climate change" because the world hasnt warmed since 1998 ). Amazing but I have well educated friends with scientific backgrounds that fail to look at the cold hard facts about global warming and still swallow this load of Gov crap. Remember when its cold like it was last winter and now summer it's just weather but if it was a heatwave then that's global warming.

Vulpes wrote:Yer Rad, I hope you are all ok, should we hijack this thread and talk about what a load of government tax motivated propaganda global warming is....

Consider it suitably hijacked... :glare:

You guys up there in Qld all take care and look after yourselves and family first and foremost. Houses and stuff can be replaced. Thinking heaps of you all. Be safe :beer

Yeah i'm fine where i am, everything i have is fairly high up :)

1992 was worse for floods in maroochydore, but brisbane is copping it now!

I wonder how glengsrIII is doing (if thats his username?) Im pretty sure he is in a region that has been evacuated. I wonder whats happening with his staz.
Flood waters came into my house today. Lucky im two floors, had to raise a couple of staz parts so they didnt get wet though. Also they evacuated my work because everyones way home crossed a bridge, and they were all flooding.

My house plenty high, but it is a bit wet down in the garage (been constantly wet for a month or so).
I work in the CBD so have a couple of days off.

Today's peak is due at 3PM so I might waddle down for a rubber neck.

Hay Rad. How is that creek next to your house holding up.

avandull wrote:Hay Rad. How is that creek next to your house holding up.

Only just into the bottom around the jacaranda trees.
Fortunately the creek is not tidal but we are marooned in as we can't get into Kenmore as the main road at the bottom of the long hill inbound is at least 3 metres under as is the outbound road to the Bellbowrie shopping centre which is flooded

Sarge, good to see you've made it through so far; TV footage from your area was incredible.
Be safe guys, as wantsom said, houses & toys can be replaced.




















God be with the little ones taken too soon