how many days..how many inches

In the past 4 or 5 days I have measured approximately 7 inches (175mm) in the rain gauge. Over the dam catchments there has been approximately double that amount.
Wednesday. after how many days of rain, there is a small break today. I am parking all this last few days info in a post here for historical purposes.

Tuesday evening 7pm :
storms over the badly flooded areas today have made rescues and searching for missing people extremely difficult. 10 people lost their lives in the bad floods in Toowoomba and surrounding area yesterday afternoon and last night. Authorities hold grave fears for 15 of 59 missing people. People are being rescued from roof tops as I write this. What happened in Toowoomba yesterday has been described as an instant inland tsunami.
Brisbane City and the neighboring of Ipswich are expecting major flooding tomorrow and on Thursday, worse than the 1974 floods, which were then a once in one hundred years. The premier and police are holding two hourly media conferences to let us know up to date details. Three major low-lying suburbs have been told to evacuate. Where the roads have been cut, they can only seek higher ground. One community of 300-400 people in Forest Hill, west of Ipswich, was being evacuated by helicopter/air today, and towns west of Toowoomba Oakey, Dalby, Chinchilla and Condamine are flooded again, and parts of those towns have been evacuated again also.
One brighter note is that the weather seems to be easing, and it is expected to ease by late morning tomorrow (Wednesday). Although this will not make any difference to the river flood predictions for the next few days, the easing of the rain will make it easier to get people and rescue crews out into the affected areas. Despite this earlier announcement, there apparently is still a severe weather warning for heavy rainfall and flash flooding over the areas again for tonight. There were also huge falls of over 400 mm over the Wivenhoe Dam in the last 24 hours.

Monday evening , Brisbane, SE Qld: Two people were killed in the terrible flash flooding that has occurred in the SE this afternoon after huge torrential downpours over the last 24-48 hours on already sodden ground. Several people are missing. Houses getting washed down creeks. Communities such as Toowoomba where a torrent of water flooded through the main street, upending cars, and effectively cutting the town in two. Grantham below the range, Withcott where cars have been washed off a bridge, Esk also has been affected by flash flooding, as well as areas on the Sunshine Coast. The premier Anna Bligh said that there are the equivalent of two Sydney Harbors flowing into our already full dams daily, and 170,000 megaliters of water is being released into Bremer and Brisbane Rivers downstream every day from all the floodgates. Consequent flooding will occur in Brisbane and Ipswich in low lying areas in the next day or so.

And from a current news flash, (8.30pm EST here), another similar rain event is expected in the next couple of hours over the same area. Authorities are worried that conditions seem to be a repeat of the awful floods in Brisbane in 1974. (A one in a hundred event). Thank you so much for Prayers for those affected. I will leave you with just the one link from this afternoon's tragedy:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/01/10/3109846.htm

This is a new area of flooding added to the already dire straights that previously existed. (See previous news below). Those communities wait for flood levels to go down, some quickly some very slowly. One community that was evacuated earlier cannot return to their rural town of Theodore until the water supply has been repaired. The towns of Gympie and Maryborough have also been flooded. The town of Dalby is flooded again for their fifth time. Authorities warn that the rain and floods are moving south to northern NSW.