We spent this afternoon digging up the nice gardens of our apartment building to fill sandbags, and stacking them around all the entrances and over stormwater drains. Even so, we've had to evacuate.
Our apartment is high enough to be dry, but the building was almost an island, the power is off, drains will start getting backed up, no rubbish collection, etc. And that might last for a week or two.
The river rose so much today that the water was coming into the front entrance of the building (even though we sandbagged it), and tomorrow and Thu it's predicted to be 3.5m higher than today!!!!
They reckon the flood will be worse than the legendary/infamous 1974 floods that covered most of Brisbane.
We're now staying with our friends up the road in Toowong. Should be okay here.
See our pics here.
Our apartment is high enough to be dry, but the building was almost an island, the power is off, drains will start getting backed up, no rubbish collection, etc. And that might last for a week or two.
The river rose so much today that the water was coming into the front entrance of the building (even though we sandbagged it), and tomorrow and Thu it's predicted to be 3.5m higher than today!!!!
They reckon the flood will be worse than the legendary/infamous 1974 floods that covered most of Brisbane.
We're now staying with our friends up the road in Toowong. Should be okay here.
See our pics here.
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