St George Flood 2012

For those interested in how St George is going here is an update on the flood.

The river is currently at 13.85m as at 5:45am this morning, (Approx 3.15m over the bridge).

For those who were at the St George National Gathering in 2009, the camping area where we stayed is wet.

Below is a photo from the verandah of one of the workers houses at the dam (the ones about 200m away from the main road to the dam wall)

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The Visitor Information centre has water in the car park across the road.

The Riversand Winery is very wet (haven't heard if water has made it into the cellar yet).

I did a dash to St George on Sunday night to escort family in sedans out through flood water on the Moonie Highway. I left Chinchilla at around 4pm and got home close to 11pm. My families propertys are fine at the moment as the water needed to exceed 14.5m to effect them. Although i have a house full of stressed family members :)

Dad and my BIL are still in St George so I will try and get some more updates from them when they call.

Thanks to all the people who have contacted me via email and MM, your offers of support and assistance is Fantastic :)

We (as in EO) may have to return to St George for another gathering to scare the flood gods away (I think they are blaming us for it as they had 10+ years of drought prior to the 2009 Gathering LOL)

Cheers Kev