Brisbane Floods Disaster Photos, January 2011

[Stephen Gentle]

I don't know if anyone's heard, but the city I live in (Brisbane, Australia - the third largest in Australia) is facing massive flooding this week, along with a lot of the state that is already flooded. Nothing like this has happened since 1974, and 100 years earlier before that, even though we built a massive dam to prevent it from hapenning again...

Anyway, here's some pictures I took today as the flood water was coming up. The peak should be in about six hours (4:00am local time). These were taken between 11:00 to 11:45 am. I have some more photos on my TwitPic account taken at 3:00 (the water rose about a metre (3ft) in that time).

Our house is on the side of a mountain, high above sea level, but most of these photos were only about four minutes drive away.

 

[David Baumber]

If you could just find that other shoe!

Stay safe Stephen and hope the weather improves.

 

[Shane Betts]

... And this is before the rainy season. Stay safe Stephen. Most of my family have been accounted for except one of my brothers - but he's on the Mary River, so we think he'll be safe.

 

[Imran Farouk]

Wow...
Got a home in Mt.Ommoney and my dad was telling me that was under water too...its crazy, one point when I was down there it was all about 'saving water' now there's too much water!

stay safe man

 

[Stephen Gentle]

Wow...
Got a home in Mt.Ommoney and my dad was telling me that was under water too...its crazy, one point when I was down there it was all about 'saving water' now there's too much water!

stay safe man

Yep - Wivenhoe Dam and Somerset Dam were at something like 16% two years ago - and 164% today...

By the way, Mt. Ommaney is just about two or three Ks past the bridge here.

 

[John Marchant]

Flash flooding is scary thing to see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxAUoXTUtS8

 

[Trevor Emmerson]

Still hot as hell here in Perth, ironic that i'm having to pay to have water delivered to the house tomorrow its that dry. We need a pipeline..
Stay safe

 

[Paul Lee]

Flash flooding is scary thing to see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxAUoXTUtS8

That was terrifying. I feel sort of sick.

 

[Joe Carney]

It's been front page news here for about 2 weeks at least. At least on the major news web sites.

 

[Andrew Gentle]

I went around with Stephen yesterday and shot some footage on a Canon HV40. Take a look here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bphmtaF2rY

 

[dino g]

red#0031 was used in brisbane in october of 2007, some of the shots from that shoot were in the nab 2008 red reel...bummer to hear about this...hope you dry out soon.

dino

 

[Cail Young]

Nothing like this has happened since 1974, and 100 years earlier before that, even though we built a massive dam to prevent it from hapenning again...

What scares me is the thought of how bad this would be had they not built that dam...