Where is all the water headed?

Cheers dereki.... I thought I'd hit a winner with thread 83540 but it side tracked talking about how reliable donation collection agencies were.
Fab.

OK...so looks like the lions's share will end up in the Murray/Darling basin with a bit headed towards the Diamantina.

Thanks again dereki.

Absolutley...huge help Kev. Just went through that all with a map laid out in front of me.
Hell the Murray is in for a good flushing.

Fab.

Hey Kev, My computer died what timing, back again now. I hear the flood in Charlies creek was sucked out by the Condamine. We went for a drive out to Kingsthorpe and Gowrie Junction. I thought the width of the flood would have been wider. The force through the valley must have been terribly fast. Hope store supplies are coming through now the speed of the road works is amazing.
Sharon

Sharon,

We opened the Charley's creek bridge yesterday for all west bound traffic so hopefully we will be getting supplies from that way.

I see today they are starting to give a bit more regional towns coverage again :) I had sent "Sunrise" a nice email yesterday to remind them that we we're still isolated and that Condamine was a ghost town and water was still rising.

I hope Eucha residents stay safe in Victoria as I have just heard that they may have to evacuate today due to flooding.


We also saved an Echinda yesterday that was washed down the Charleys Creek and stuck in debris in the bridge railings :)

Cheers Kev

This article from The Australian gives a pretty good description, but before going to the Lockyer Creek a lot of water went down Murphys Creek and a couple lost their lives. The Australian - Toowoomba Flood There is also a couple of other creek systems on the western side of Toowoomba which also go to the Condamine. The one going past my place near Glenvale , Spring Creek, was running about 4 metres deep in places and very ferocious.

Old Girl - I am constantly amazed by the number of people who believe the water in Toowoomba caused the damage in the Lockyer. This is our electorate - when looking at the maps it is handy to note that the Lockyer Creek headwaters are roughly about east (over the edge of the range) from about Geham.
The Toowoomba water (as lectured to me by my son the surveyor in Toowoomba) has a catchment in Nelson Street which then flowed south to north and goes west and into the Condamine. As I went to school in Toowoomba I still find it hard to believe......and still get the horros when I see the footage.
The Lockyer Creek water filled up because of the storm cell which came in from the north-east (the super storm) and with the amount of water coming over the range (north of Toowoomba)......there was no chance.
Saw a photo of a creek about 4 metres deep and when asked where that was it turned out to be the UP lane on the Toowoomba range. Could not believe it.
Very glad you made it home safely, Old Girl.

Gives me the shivers too. I saw that footage of the down section last night. Wow the rain over the edge of the range must have been so intense. I've had a few friends ask me if ive been down there to have a look. I cant bring myself to go. I have seen personal footage not released of Chalk drive Neil st intersection. There was a mound of water in the middle. When the water went down there was a small car with two women in it and thankfully they survived. I've got some pictures of the creek at Cambooya. But I cant load them onto our dinosaur computer. Will have to wait for the laptop to get fixed. I also want to finish my blog of our trip. The Darling looks fantastic. Probably in flood by now.
Cheers
Sharon

Hi greenant, I thought of them the other night. Was wondering if that would be the case.

Cheers

D

Probably be too cold for them.