Major portions of this huge state is in severe trouble with the state of the floods, via many different rivers, whole towns are being evacuated, major highways and hundreds of roads are closed, so food supplies for humans and animals are on hold, peoples houses and sheds severely damaged or ruined for good, and businesses losing all their supplies and stock.
severe animal/stock losses
and of course the wide array of crops, whether it be wheat, pineapples, bananas, corn, melons and so it goes on.
Cities such as Bundaberg (producers of that special Rum), Rockhampton, Chinchilla and many other places are in real crisis. Some dams are so full that near Bundaberg 2 times the water of Sydney Harbour is gushing over this dam's spillway - every day!!! These floods will continue moving down for weeks, and that's before clean up starts.
For example in the Gemfields, the wonderful small city of Emerald has a river - Nogoa - which is due to rise "50 feet above its normal level" - 80 percent of this city will go under water by tomorrow - some 10,000 occupants are being, and will be evacuated.
We were in Warwick on our way home from the Snowy 4 weeks ago, staying overnight, road was atrocious then with high water tables and road train damage - can't imagine how bad it is going to be after this.
Some enjoying a play in front of the pub, before the real stuff arrives, you know to me this is quite silly, the snakes are also caught up in this disaster, swimming their way to higher ground - and who wants to share the floods with them!!.
And these two still celebrated their Christmas with water lapping at their top step - so typical of the strength and happy attitude of country Aussies.
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The rain has stopped here for the last 36 hours, and our little abode has not been affected - the Golf course down the road disappeared into a huge lake, but I feel so much for those who are under water, and for the stock and businesses which have been lost.
