Interesting QR workings

["Garry R. Ford" <garry@merddyn.apana.org.au>]

Be on the watch out for interesting QR short workings over the next few days.

What the news isn't telling you is that Brisbane is probably about to be
submerged deeper than in '74. By the time you read this Gympie will be under the
deepest it has been since 1893 and parts of Ipswich already are. What they
aren't telling is that what Gympie gets Brisbane gets as both cities' rivers
start at the same point, on different sides of the summit. These fllod heights
look like they will be 1 1/4 - 1 1/2 times 1974 heights. The only factors I
don't have figures on are the about of water that fell on the Brisbane side
compasred to the Mary side, and how much water is coming down the Bremer River
and Lockyer Creek, But since low parts of Ipswich are already under, I'd say
quite a lot. The 1974 flood was mainly caused by those two streams.

By mid tommorrow Maryborough will have gone. In 1893 Walkers was washed into
Hervey Bay together with almost every building in the old city. Looks like
electric car construction might be somewhat delayed.

Toogoolawah is already under water. That is a fair way upstream from the dams
which have already reached flood capacity and have now had the flood gates
opened, to make way for the deluge heading down from upstream. (T used to be the
railmotor terminus on the Brisbane Valley Railway.

Train services have already been interrupted to the north, and Beenleigh area is
already under water to the south.


Cheers

Garry
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