Last weekend I was in Toowoomba,
on my way home from church on Sunday, I took a little drive through the center of town
where the events of January10 were to prove disastrous flooding in these streets and normal little
waterways...
claiming lives, and cars in the inland tsunami there
It was all so unbelievable, I am still trying to get it all sorted out in my mind where it all happened...
this mild looking creek was to cause the worst devastation and loss of life as it could no longer cope with the copious amounts of runoff coming down the mountain, and roared through the sleepy little towns of Murphy;s creek, Spring Bluff, Helidon, and the badly devastated little township of Grantham
and from this very high vantage spot
a humble little cactus
and the Brisbane river below
showing the flood marks from weeks before
and this flimsy fence was all that stopped me from tumbling over the edge of the very high bank of the river...glad I don't live here to worry about kids and grandchildren wandering around
and the river as it looks as it meanders along through the back of my suburb
good to be back home for a bit
Last weekend I was in Toowoomba,
on my way home from church on Sunday, I took a little drive through the center of town
where the events of January10 were to prove disastrous flooding in these streets and normal little
waterways...
claiming lives, and cars in the inland tsunami there
It was all so unbelievable, I am still trying to get it all sorted out in my mind where it all happened...
this mild looking creek was to cause the worst devastation and loss of life as it could no longer cope with the copious amounts of runoff coming down the mountain, and roared through the sleepy little towns of Murphy;s creek, Spring Bluff, Helidon, and the badly devastated little township of Grantham
and from this very high vantage spot
a humble little cactus
and the Brisbane river below
showing the flood marks from weeks before
and this flimsy fence was all that stopped me from tumbling over the edge of the very high bank of the river...glad I don't live here to worry about kids and grandchildren wandering around
and the river as it looks as it meanders along through the back of my suburb
good to be back home for a bit
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We have had just such an horrific summer here in Queensland, that, as you said, the brain struggles to cope with it all. I said to someone, I need to write it all down, what happened , step by step along the way, to try to get sorted. Lo and behold the newspaper has actually done so, unfortunately with photos, and I can actually hardly pick it up to read it. Every time I see some of it on tv I burst into tears, not for myself but for what others have been through and are suffering. If I am in this state, how must they be coping?
A moving post.