Queensland Floods

Wow it sucks what's happened to Toowoomba - we're bracing for it when it hits here. Personally I'm as safe as it's possible to be although my wife and daughter are trapped and can't get back to Brisbane (they're in Kingaroy and safe, but trapped).

I'm a supervisor for about 20 electricity meter readers and some of my fellow team leaders out west and up north are running into some serious problems work-wise. Since my workers work outside and can't really stop because of the weather (barring actual storms in progress/flooding) we're all following events very closely.
 
Just heard a fella on ABC radio say lockyer creek west of grantham has reached it's peaks of yesterday again and is still rising. There'll be not much search & rescue there today :(

Found this for Wivenhoe heights -

http://www.bom.gov.au/fwo/IDQ65389/IDQ65389.540177.tbl.shtml

last section -

11/01/2011 10:34 73.97
11/01/2011 10:35 73.95
11/01/2011 10:36 73.99
11/01/2011 10:49 74.01
11/01/2011 11:07 74.07
11/01/2011 11:08 74.09
11/01/2011 11:09 74.07
11/01/2011 11:11 74.07

and the rules -

Dam Level less than 67.25m = 0m3/sec (ie no releases)
Dam level 67.25m - 67.5m = up to 110 m3/sec (dependent on flows at Colleges Crossing)
Dam level 67.5 - 67.75 = up to 210 m3/sec (dependent on flows at Butrons/Noogoorah)
Dam level 67.75 - 68.0 = up to 500 m3/sec (dependent on flows at Kholo)
Dam level 68.0 - 68.25 = up to 900 m3/sec (dependent on flows at Mt Crosby)
Dam level 68.25 - 68.5 = up to 1500 m3/sec (dependent on flows at Mt Crosby)
Dam level 68.5 - 74 = up to 3500 m3/sec (dependent on flows at Lowood/Moggil)
Dam level 74m or higher = Max releases until level drops, as dam safety may be compromised. Gates (74m) are NOT to be overtopped.

So basically it's letting it out as fast as it comes in now :(
 
Well crud, networks are going down. I'm out of contact with my wife and half my staff. The Energex guys (I'm tucked into a corner office since we meter readers are technically contractors) at the depot are getting real busy and a little freaked.
 
River has broken the banks at West End in the last 15 minutes. This is how long before the expected peak tomorrow, which was based on estimates 4-5 metres below what they plugged into the models last night?

Oh dear. AdinDraco - go home. Now. Nobody needs their meters read.
 
Hah - Wish I could. This afternoon is the afternoon that I make sure my staff get paid for the preceeding week. Flood or no flood, my workers need their pay (plus I'm at least 3 levels too low to even suggest such a thing).
 
AdinDraco said:
Well crud, networks are going down. I'm out of contact with my wife and half my staff. The Energex guys (I'm tucked into a corner office since we meter readers are technically contractors) at the depot are getting real busy and a little freaked.
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What icerat said, mate. Err on the side of caution.
 
Parts of Jindalee and Strathpine being evacuated. Caboolture is now cutoff. Wivenhoe now at 74.19 and rising.
 
icerat said:
well at least tell your staff to come in, get their pay, and go home! Those you can reach anyway ...

Check out the live radar. The heavens have a bullseye on you guys.

http://www.weatherzone.com.au/radar.jsp?lt=wzstate&lc=qld&ane=1&anf=1&and=1&ana=4&anb=333&anc=3&lya=1&lyk=1&lye=1&lyf=1
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I think that's why it's flooding sooner than expected. It's been absolutely pissing down in the Bremer catchment since the early hours of this morning and just adding to what was already in the watercourses.


ETA: And, as you point out, Wivenhoe is just a bridge now.
 
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Police report Brisbane city central bikeways now flooded.
Queenswharf Road at North Quay closed
Getting the hint AD?
 
Depends where you are and where home is and whether you want to spend a few days at the first or second. Peak isn't predicted until tomorrow. RACQ and elsewhere are updating their sites with closures.
 
Wivenhoe continues to rise at about a centimeter a minute and you can see when they do massive outflows when it drops, and 10 minutes later it's higher again.

With the area it covers when this full that is simply .... I don't know the word ...

Scary?

I'm fearing 1974 except worse with far more housing in low areas.
 
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