SEQ floods

thought those in low areas in brisbane and surrounds might find this usefull.

PRIORITY
FLOOD WARNING FOR THE LOCKYER, BREMER, WARRILL AND Brisbane RIVER BELOW WIVENHOE INCLUDING Brisbane CITY
Issued at 9:28 AM on Tuesday the 11th of January 2011
by the Bureau of Meteorology, Brisbane.



Continuing heavy rainfall in the Lockyer Creek catchment is causing very fast
rises along Tenthill Creek.

The main flood waters in the Lockyer Creek are now arriving at Lyons Bridge,
with strong stream rises during Tuesday and levels of above 17 metres are
forecast.

Wivenhoe dam is providing significant mitigation of upper Brisbane floods. River
flows from the Bremer and Lockyer catchments combined with releases from
Wivenhoe dam will increase levels in Brisbane during Tuesday.

At the Brisbane City Gauge, minor flood levels of about 2.1 metres are expected
with the afternoon high tide on Tuesday and moderate flood levels of 2.6 metres
with the overnight high tide. Further rises to 3.5 metres (major) is expected
with the high tide on Wednesday afternoon with higher levels likely on Thursday.


LOCKYER CREEK:
Very heavy rainfall is continuing in the Lockyer Creek catchment and further
very fast rises are being observed along Tenthill Creek this morning. Renewed
rises are likely in the lower catchment during Tuesday prolonging major
flooding. The Lockyer Creek at Glenore Grove peaked at 14.60 metres at 11:30pm,
which is 0.3 metres below the 1974 flood. Renewed rises are likely at Glenore
Grove today with a return to above 14 metres.

The main flood peak from Monday is currently approaching Lyons Bridge, with
strong stream rises expected in the next few hours. A peak is expected above 17
metres at Lyons Bridge later today.

BREMER RIVER:
The Bremer River at Walloon has exceeded the moderate flood level. The Bremer
River at Rosewood peaked at 5.8 metres around midnight Monday but renewed rises
are expected as rainfall continues.

The Bremer River at Ipswich is expected to reach about 16 metres during
Wednesday. Higher levels are expected.

WARRILL CREEK
Further rises are likely today as rainfall continues.

MIDDLE AND LOWER Brisbane:
Moderate flooding will continue to rise at Savages Crossing and at Mt Crosby
Weir.

At the Brisbane City Gauge (lower end of Edward Street and at Thornton Street),
minor flood levels of about 2.1 metres are expected with the afternoon high tide
on Tuesday and moderate flood levels of 2.6 metres with the overnight high tide.
Higher flood levels to 3.5 metres (major) are expected with the high tide on
Wednesday afternoon. Levels above 3.5 metres are expected on Thursday.

(3.5 metres at the Brisbane City gauge is about 2.5 metres higher than the
highest tide of the year at this location).

Further rises are expected at all four locations with continued rainfall.

thanks gesty

There, fixed it for you Vando


I hope everyone is safe - Incredible series of events happening as we speak.

After yesterday's events in Toowoomba media stated "maybe a slight rise in the Bris River"

I cant believe they said that. Anyone been in QLD all their lives knows that is a catchment area!!! and it all funnels to Brisbane!!!!

Funny this morning how they changed their tune real quick and everything is now almost on Disaster level in Bris!!!

I hope no lives are lost!!!!!

they are at it again, channel 9 anchor says just come through on wire that mayor of ipswich was expecting 40m peak and is now expecting 80m peak, cross to laurie oaks and he reiterates comments, cross to reporter on ground at ipswich she says its hard to believe unless yuo are out here and seeing it, but didn't dismiss it, be good if they report facts without adding in their own made up bs. real figures they should have reported are 14m and 18m

Be safe you lot.

Yeah Lungs, Channel Nine either need to buy Peter Harvey hearing aids or put him out to pasture. How stupid could he be to talk to the on-the-ground reporter live crossing from the Bremer River who stated it was currently at 14 metres and then the idiot interjects with his 80 metre prediction. He also doesn't know how many storeys can fit into 80 metres but I'll give him grace on that but sh1t how hard is it to divide 3 (metres / floor) into 80. He should stick to reporting from Caaaaaaaaaannnnnbeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrra.

PS- GCMoz that water that went through Toowoomba goes west to Oakey then into the Murray Darling system. It's the Lockyer Valley catchment that wiped out Grantham and surrounding areas. Lived in Gatton in 1996 and we had some floods then which cut highway to Brisbane but no where near this disaster.

Snags -

Does it depend on which side of the range it goes to???

I'm Not an expert on the area -that means I qualify as a chanel 9 reporter!

PS - Rocky is coming to an end soon for me!!!!! Noosa Sounds nice for my next place!!!!!

Best wishes to you all for your personal safety, and that of your home and loved ones.
I pray the rain will stop soon.

Hope everyone in the low lying area's in the flood effected parts are safe and dry, hope all goes well for the flood effected people.

looks like the media is once again doing a bang up job.

went to the shops to get bread and milk, iga sold out of both and woolies out of bread and only 6 bottles of milk left. wife gets back from netball and says the talk was shops are selling out of water.

that's frigin mental! the brisbane river is 40 minutes away.

Anyone help me build an Ark!

this is the toowong city cat terminal well under water. looking across the other side of the river it looks like there is some flooding also???? not sure. tomorrow water will be 2.5m+ higher.

that's another storey nearly on the buildings across the river.

Gee some of our media guru's need edumucation in terminology or what. I can only get ch7 where we are at the moment, but the old fool Koshi sees a yard of excavators, big and small (track type diggers) and then starts to broad brush all earthmoving machinery as "Bobcats" Somebody need to drag his stupid head to one side and edumacate the bloody goose!!! that a Bobcat is a brand name like Holden and Ford. One of his minders needs to show him that an original Bobcat is a small skid steer load. An excavator is a track type backhoe; a Backhoe is a rubber tyred tractor with back hoe attached, and so on.
Maybe I need to call Uncle Kerry and get him on side
The devastation suffered by those affected, doesn’t need to be enhanced by the media fools looking stupid on national TV.
Hope all you guys are safe and well up there.