Those trees: “Boy it’s hot out here, I could use some water. Oh perfect, some rain....alright that’s good...I said I’m good....hey, that’s enough!! Hey!! Heyglurg fhprh glargg uugersb.”
Media pretty much washed out but not underwater as it receded over a few weeks and Queensland was severely destroyed with most building severely damaged or gone
@@Selmarya Rubbish. I'm a Queenslander, you do realise that the state of Queensland covers nearly 2 million square kilometres? The flood was limited to the area around Ipswich. The rest of the state was just fine.
@@theshillneckedlizard8364 whoops, your right, i meant the ipswich metropolitan area and nearby towns and citys were flooded for weeks I forget Queensland is about 7 times larger than my nation lol
This is one of the most amazing things I have ever seen.. How it starts as a gentle gully and turns into a straight-up sea Manitoba experienced something similar in 1997
@@Tonie0 Yes, a time lapse that required six nights hence not qualifying as a Flash Flood. A Flash Flood requires seconds, minutes, or a few hours. Not six nights, which then makes it a Flood. Here's an example of a Flash Flood: th-cam.com/video/AIAl3MJ2Ihc/w-d-xo.html
My husband is always complaining that he’s never gotten to live near a lake, stream or creek. I have, and what I tell him is...”if you can see the water from your house...someday the water will come to see YOU.” No, thanks...high and dry for me!!
Ive lived by the lake ny whole life. Our houses are evelated for a reason. Also we have made sure to build houses close to the water, but not nearly close enough for any flood to get to our house. Yoh my friend, must be scared of water or something. Who cares if it floods some? As long as you know jow to swim you are ok
@@dragonheart7901. You probably don't know this. If that water managed to get into cleaning supplies or sewage, the water can become extremely toxic and then kill you. This happened in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina struck back in 2005: the water was able to penetrate cabinets full of cleaning supplies and it also dragged up sewage from things like sinks and bathtubs. Basically, around that time, if you ingested the water in any way, it had a real chance of either incapacitating you or just killing you outright.
@@dragonbornexpress5650 The place where I lived had a flood just like that too. It also got into cow fields, so cow crap was in the water too. We were not allowed to drink or swim in the lake. And belive it or not, we don't use the water from our lake to drink stuff. We use water from an aquifer in another part of the state since our lake is a national animal reserve
When I first moved to central Queensland, I saw sandbag walls being built around entire towns. The sky was clear, it had not rained for two weeks... but the floodwaters were coming.
@@kensmilepachi3313 Tracks are built on the ground normally. A lot of base strata work is done to increase the density and longevity of the rail bed. Sometimes short piers are put into this process where the ground is just not acceptable even with the bed work. But, when you are basically building a serial bridge - raised track. You build deep piers and girder the rail bed - this is a magnitude more resistant to anything nature can throw at it. It is much more costly but actually builds a bit faster, laying bed takes time because there are so many layers. Building a bridge is piers beams girders and supports and you are done. So, when you have an area like this one that sees a "wash" from seasonal rains, you want that track up off of the ground. It cost a lot more to build, but you only build it once. A conventional track bed would have to be rebuilt the entire affected length every year and over the long term, that is a lot more expensive.
I’m South Australian & for NYE 2009 we went camping down the river in our local area. It was quite a sloped ravine area & we rigged up a swing on this really high branch in a massive gumtree. I moved interstate a few weeks later but that year they had a huge amount of rain. About 12months later I went back for a visit with some friends & went out in the tinny. We were cruising along in the boat and noticed a tree branch in the water with a rope floating about. I suddenly turned to my mates who just nodded & went ‘yup, it’s our campsite. We’re floating above it’ It was completely GONE. Totally under water. You wouldn’t have even known that there was a ravine below it with a ginormous gumtree below.
@@e.graceoldstoneroses9947 One of the weirdest things I’ve ever experienced. Because the bank of the river was then the top of the ravine. It was absolutely insane. Could be worse though, in 1956 the area had the biggest flood ever experienced. In our area the river rose 12m (40 feet). Some other areas were FAR worse. Shit was completely under water. It’s quite amazing though because if you boat down the Murray River, you can see the old signs nailed into the trees where the water rose to which was WAAAAY up high. I tried to paste a link to show but it won’t work. If you’re interested Google “tree of knowledge loxton South Australia” & click images. Has the sign up high up on the tree & for reference at how high that is - it’s in the park area, not even on the river bank!!! Edit; found a link. I think it’s photo 3/7 www.tripadvisor.com/LocationPhotoDirectLink-g2686396-d21169587-i464897308-Loxton_s_Tree_Of_Knowledge-Loxton_South_Australia.html
Great video. Almost 50 and lived close to Oh. River. Many times i have told people. Never underestimate water!! It's more powerful than people think. Ky Rt8 and train tracks disappear under river each year.
"Strewth, I ain't going in there," said Australian Thomas. "There might be salties and stingers!" "Oi, you'll go in there, ya drongo woos," said the Australian Fat Conductor.
my anxiety went through the roof when it got that close under the camera and i have no idea why.. i think it was just the depth of the water that scared me
@@corirose2549 in not joking or being an asshole though? Im just saying that the water isn't that deep to me. But maybe thats just because I'm a swimmer and grew up swimming in the 3rd largest lake in my state and that water in the video is about as deep as our public swimming pools that I also swim in every summer. So no. Its not that deep Edit: just searched the comments. Roughly 6 foot deep? Cmon! The public pools I swim at get to 12 ft deep at most! Jesus Christ this person must have a fear of water or something. Because my friends who can swim all say this ain't that deep. But my sister who is petrified of not being able to touch the bottom said this was deep
In Galena, Illinois (US) there are a pair of 20 foot tall watertight doors leading into town. When the dry riverbed outside of town floods, sometimes it gets way too high.
Now imagine coastal US and the Pacific islands when hurricane/typhoon season happens. I've lived through Hurricane Harvey when it hit Houston, as a Houston native, I've never seen so much water cover an entire highway system, took it a really good while to recede into the gulf.
Some places have dirt so hard, compacted and lifeless that you can rap your knuckles on the surface and it sounds like your tapping ceramic. This is where small, frequent rainwater harvesting earthworks from onsite materials starting in the foothills/ higher areas would improve the soils and available groundwater. It would reduce catastrophic lowland flooding while increasing water supply over a longer period. That video shows a lot of water that runs off carrying good soil and materials, while the rest evaporates off instead of absorbing deeply into the soil...
It's in a flat arid area in an area subject to inundation that flows inland. The area is vast, subject to decaying tropical cyclones which over geological time have shaped the continent. This is the cycle of life. It might not flood like this for 70 years then it will flood like this every year for 10. After the floods the desert comes to life.
@ThePaulv12 You're totally missing the point of my statement. Maybe I failed to explain enough. The ground is very hard. Because it's so very compacted, little water permeates. Maybe as little as half an inch or maybe less. It may be the plants are rooting in fresh sedimentary deposits only, because the soil is so poor. Starting in any foothills with rainwater harvesting catchments made from onsite materials and continuing into the valley can transform this land's rain cycles, and plant diversity. Increasing rain harvesting will promote regreening that will restore the area to more regular, balanced hydrology. It will also recapture valuable soil and raise water tables in the area...
Wait, what... That tiny puddle on the road on the right seemed to expand as if it was an underground spring. Did the water come from elsewhere through the water table?
@Matthew Aniston sure, I'd be upset, but I won't let it bring me down. I'll just work for a new house. Sitting there and crying all day and being useless won't bring it back
Put it on your bucket list. Once you're confident, go and swim somewhere nice. Do it before you die. Australians like me grow up swimming at our beaches- it really is a wonderful experience.
man i been living in south florida 17 years and always on the beach like backyard is the ocean or the canal next to it and only once i woke up and thr water was at my screen door so thr level rose 8 feet up
What happens to stop the trains from going on with their routes anyway in a tragic case like this anyway? Please, can someone answer that question & reply to me about it? Thanks! Or do they get rerouted elsewhere a different & much longer route because I know that they will always received a heads up on a monitoring system otherwise first hand. But what about everyone's 'Goods, Etc.' needing to make it into various towns too?
They don't continue on with their route - we do have meteorologists and weather reports here, you know. Queensland Rail has a very comprehensive signalling system, plus all locomotives have both two-way radio and satellite phones, so the train would have been warned and stopped long before this point. Goods are usually rerouted by truck via another inland highway such as the Kennedy Highway or else up the coastal Bruce Highway. People on passenger trains such as the Spirit of Queensland get rerouted via bus.
The video of the flood is terrifying when considering that 1 cubic metre of water is 1000 litres of water weighing 1 Metric tonne at standard temperature and pressure.
This crossing is located in central Queensland. Summer temperatures around 40 degrees C and winter 25 degrees C. There are two chances that it will ever freeze over - zero and none.
I witnessed the great flood of Central Georgia firsthand in 1994. Saw one guy sitting on the steps of a soon to be flooded bank watching the water come up the steps. A one foot rise per hour. He gave up when the water finally reached the front doors.
Yeah, that would also be a pain in the ass to do. Because water is such a bitch to deal with, it can accumulate enough for the tires on a car to not be capable of touching the road. Just imagining what that would do to a train is somewhat scary.
That looks like the stretch of rail line near the Condamine River in South Eastern Queensland. . It floods like that every 6 to 10 years. Between the city of Toowoomba and the township of Millmerran.
1000 miles from the ocean. The outback can flood something fierce. Many years of no rain, then massive rain. They also get ex-tropical cyclones that degenerate into rain depressions as they cross the coast and head inland,.causing massive floods. Normal for arid climates around the world. It just happened in Dubai.
@@raven4k998 no it’s still upside down. the gravity is reduced from the way it hangs off the earth like a drop of water on a shower rod…that’s why the floods are so bad.
@@JoeOvercoat no it is upside down to begin with cause you are walking around on the outside of a sphere kiddo so if it is flipped then it is right side up
AMAZING how much water can run over deserts in these flash flood events. If there were only some way you could get more of it to soak into the ground! Thanks for sharing an amazing video!
Dunno if true, read about train approaching a trestle bridge (in QLD) and you can just see the tracks. The driver hesitated and when the floodwaters receeded, the bridge was gone, the tracks and sleepers just crossed the open space. In floodwaters, the bridge gets hit with debris and the rushing water weakens the bridge supports. In Victoria the old bridge at Stratford had timber members shaped like a boat around the brick bridge support to ease the debris aside. The new bridge just has rebar concrete supports, be interesting if it stands the test of time.
Reminds me a lot of that train scene in Spirited Away where it rains and it looks like an ocean covering the tracks. except having a much more beautiful and peaceful sort of vibe to it and it had so much more color. I loved that movie so much and still do even to this day when I first saw it so many years ago.
Those trees:
“Boy it’s hot out here, I could use some water. Oh perfect, some rain....alright that’s good...I said I’m good....hey, that’s enough!! Hey!! Heyglurg fhprh glargg uugersb.”
Great comment.
😂😂😂😂
Lmfao
LOL!
😆
I want to seen the ending, when the water recedes and the mess that is left (buried tracks).
Hey, Frank. How high was the last flood?
6 feet. Why?
*Sets camera at 6 feet 2 inches.
(Edit,
4200+ likes in 3 months, Thank you, everyone! 🥳)
@@zachlualhati The real measurement unit
Under-appreciated initial comment that probably has some truth to it.
@@spythere the metric system is gay which is why canadians are so fond of it
@@jango7889 90% of the world is gay then, nice...
@@jango7889 so better be "gay" because we use metric system then alone in basement like you :D
Knowing Australia, I’m guessing there’s gotta be at least a couple blue-ringed eight-legged crocodile-bull-snakes in there.
'Bout half a dozen drop bears too, mate! They love the water. Just as dangerous as those salties!
@@Mikowmer And the tail-biting cockatoos, of course.
The country is no place for humans.
@@Mikowmer gotta watch those little sheep eating parrots, too
& a bear as well..
lol
I would like to see when (if?) the water recedes!
Australian here: Queensland is permanently underwater after the great Ipswich Flood of 2018.
@@TheDemocrab really!?
Media pretty much washed out but not underwater as it receded over a few weeks and Queensland was severely destroyed with most building severely damaged or gone
@@Selmarya Rubbish. I'm a Queenslander, you do realise that the state of Queensland covers nearly 2 million square kilometres? The flood was limited to the area around Ipswich. The rest of the state was just fine.
@@theshillneckedlizard8364 whoops, your right, i meant the ipswich metropolitan area and nearby towns and citys were flooded for weeks
I forget Queensland is about 7 times larger than my nation lol
This is one of the most amazing things I have ever seen.. How it starts as a gentle gully and turns into a straight-up sea
Manitoba experienced something similar in 1997
That’s what I call a flash flood… it covered that railway in 59 seconds
That was a flash. It took six nights and snuck up on critters that hibernate.
i bet that there will be that one guy that is going to scream
"ITS A FUCKING TIMELAPSE YOU DUMBASS"
Wooshing sounds will soon be heard in this comment section. I'll be waiting to pounce on those comments 🤗
@@Tonie0 Yes, a time lapse that required six nights hence not qualifying as a Flash Flood. A Flash Flood requires seconds, minutes, or a few hours. Not six nights, which then makes it a Flood. Here's an example of a Flash Flood: th-cam.com/video/AIAl3MJ2Ihc/w-d-xo.html
@@Tonie0 well, Looks like we found him 😂 ^^^
Where's the guy in his Hilux saying, "no worries, I'll just drive through..."?
He started driving through at 0:58
@@timbibin1301 there's a farmer thinking "Hey, we could drown a hundred thousand head of cattle here."
About 120km downstream now
Is it just me, or did the water get so high that it was close to submerging the camera?
I was thinking the exact same thing.
Sure looks that way.
Right! After the bridge went under, I was waiting for it to take the camera out too.
Looks like it did and died right before the water reached it
At he end the camera was sending out an SOS signal.
Australia: *engulfed in flames*
Also Australia: *creates new ocean*
and Sheeple won't take international weather manipulation seriously
@@CosmicSeeker69 Wut ?
what?
@@CosmicSeeker69
@@CosmicSeeker69 Have you considered getting psychiatric help for your delusions?
@@CosmicSeeker69 coz its always done it. just cycles
who else wanted to see a train come barreling down the tracks throwing water sky high in both directions
Umm in the early stages - yes absoutely - look how HIGH the water is at the end - not possible!!
It would derail lol if the track is even still there to begin with.
underwater trains exist in some parts of the world , so why not
life um please provide some more info about these "underwater trains" - please, thank you
This is an article
Ahhh Queensland... I used to live there... It's where the saying "When it doesn't rain it pours" takes on a whole new meaning.
My husband is always complaining that he’s never gotten to live near a lake, stream or creek. I have, and what I tell him is...”if you can see the water from your house...someday the water will come to see YOU.” No, thanks...high and dry for me!!
Lol
Loll
Ive lived by the lake ny whole life. Our houses are evelated for a reason. Also we have made sure to build houses close to the water, but not nearly close enough for any flood to get to our house. Yoh my friend, must be scared of water or something. Who cares if it floods some? As long as you know jow to swim you are ok
@@dragonheart7901. You probably don't know this. If that water managed to get into cleaning supplies or sewage, the water can become extremely toxic and then kill you. This happened in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina struck back in 2005: the water was able to penetrate cabinets full of cleaning supplies and it also dragged up sewage from things like sinks and bathtubs. Basically, around that time, if you ingested the water in any way, it had a real chance of either incapacitating you or just killing you outright.
@@dragonbornexpress5650 The place where I lived had a flood just like that too. It also got into cow fields, so cow crap was in the water too. We were not allowed to drink or swim in the lake. And belive it or not, we don't use the water from our lake to drink stuff. We use water from an aquifer in another part of the state since our lake is a national animal reserve
When I first moved to central Queensland, I saw sandbag walls being built around entire towns. The sky was clear, it had not rained for two weeks... but the floodwaters were coming.
Post 10 could clear that with just a rake
I was looking for the first post 10 comment.........
Dude, yes!😹
lmao i just watched a video of his 10 seconds ago!
Lol best comment, he probably would.
@@Thatdude23_23 me too
That’s a dramatic time lapse. Thanks for posting.
I was starting to think the clip would end with us seeing Noah’s Ark float by.
Or some lad named Noah's house
Omg same... was thinking about Noah's Ark while watching the water rise lol
@@aubymori1333 read the first book of the bible: Genesis. Then you'll get the reference.
The real reason Billionaires have massive yachts - they know what's coming.
@@juneberry1982 - Don't bother reading the bible, it will control how you think, it all leads to silly superstitions.
Nature: I'm bored of this landscape. Think I'll change it up
God not nature!
There is not God just Nature
MOM IM GOING OUT TONIGHT,
Dont forget the towel!
That's why the train tracks were raised up on their own special elevated platform - not that it made a difference in this case.
It did make a difference, they were still there when the water receded.
@@cadengrace5466:O
@@cadengrace5466
Wait, you mean if the tracks weren't originally raised, they would have got washed away by the flood?
@@kensmilepachi3313 Tracks are built on the ground normally. A lot of base strata work is done to increase the density and longevity of the rail bed. Sometimes short piers are put into this process where the ground is just not acceptable even with the bed work. But, when you are basically building a serial bridge - raised track. You build deep piers and girder the rail bed - this is a magnitude more resistant to anything nature can throw at it. It is much more costly but actually builds a bit faster, laying bed takes time because there are so many layers. Building a bridge is piers beams girders and supports and you are done.
So, when you have an area like this one that sees a "wash" from seasonal rains, you want that track up off of the ground. It cost a lot more to build, but you only build it once. A conventional track bed would have to be rebuilt the entire affected length every year and over the long term, that is a lot more expensive.
@@cadengrace5466 This is the Corella Creek crossing. Trains like a flat surface to run on. They don’t like gullys. It’s back to flat after the creek.
It would have been good to see what it looked like after the water receded
The tree on the left is a good indicator, that's at least 12 feet of water. Dang.
As Jim Reeves sang 'Welcome To My World' it's called the Somerset Levels in winter. It's a yearly thing these days and had lasted for months.
Who else got it recommended out of nowhere
No music! THANK YOU!
You can silence any video by clicking mute or lowering the volume to 0. Takes less effort than writing “No music! THANK YOU!”.
@SuperTonyony I agree.
Marty: “Doc? I don’t think we’re gonna have enough track to get up to 88 miles per hour.” Doc: “Where we’re going, we don’t need tracks.”
Good movie!
This is how you get land sharks!
That’s SCARY!!
Land sharks. Another SNL legacy...
Well I mean bull shark would be game enough to swim far inland so your not wrong
Not impossible. Welcome to Australia.
Glad you didn't say land whales... our beaches are already full of them
0:57 is when the camera floated away into the Coral sea after transmitting its last few shots.
I’m South Australian & for NYE 2009 we went camping down the river in our local area.
It was quite a sloped ravine area & we rigged up a swing on this really high branch in a massive gumtree.
I moved interstate a few weeks later but that year they had a huge amount of rain.
About 12months later I went back for a visit with some friends & went out in the tinny.
We were cruising along in the boat and noticed a tree branch in the water with a rope floating about. I suddenly turned to my mates who just nodded & went ‘yup, it’s our campsite. We’re floating above it’
It was completely GONE. Totally under water.
You wouldn’t have even known that there was a ravine below it with a ginormous gumtree below.
That must have felt extremely surreal!
@@e.graceoldstoneroses9947
One of the weirdest things I’ve ever experienced. Because the bank of the river was then the top of the ravine. It was absolutely insane.
Could be worse though, in 1956 the area had the biggest flood ever experienced.
In our area the river rose 12m (40 feet).
Some other areas were FAR worse.
Shit was completely under water.
It’s quite amazing though because if you boat down the Murray River, you can see the old signs nailed into the trees where the water rose to which was WAAAAY up high.
I tried to paste a link to show but it won’t work.
If you’re interested Google “tree of knowledge loxton South Australia” & click images.
Has the sign up high up on the tree & for reference at how high that is - it’s in the park area, not even on the river bank!!!
Edit; found a link. I think it’s photo 3/7
www.tripadvisor.com/LocationPhotoDirectLink-g2686396-d21169587-i464897308-Loxton_s_Tree_Of_Knowledge-Loxton_South_Australia.html
@@Kiina312 I remember that flood in '56. I was 4 at the time and visiting Echuca. The Murray was flowing over the bridge if I remember right.
@@olsmokey
I’ve seen that bridge - wow!
Is this where they shot that train scene in Spirited Away?
I see land and it become a freaking sea
What do you think Noah went threw?
@@Wickedreptiles through
@@Coldcloves why do you have to be that guy?
Looks like a desert but the next day, it became a "dangerous river" ... it's incredible!
They moved the Mississippi...
Impressive! This year it rains or snows a lot across Europe.
Cool video. Any damage to the tracks ?
I wasn't expecting THAT much water
“This will be interesti…oh good lawd!”
Damn it, I wanted to see the railroad track when the water receded. Did it stay planted or did it need any rebuilding?
Great video. Almost 50 and lived close to Oh. River. Many times i have told people. Never underestimate water!! It's more powerful than people think. Ky Rt8 and train tracks disappear under river each year.
I’m from the queensland plains where the creeks run dry or 10feet high in time or drought or plenty
"Strewth, I ain't going in there," said Australian Thomas. "There might be salties and stingers!"
"Oi, you'll go in there, ya drongo woos," said the Australian Fat Conductor.
Croykee!
🤣
“I want those rails scrubbed until they’re sparkling clean!”
OK.
my anxiety went through the roof when it got that close under the camera and i have no idea why.. i think it was just the depth of the water that scared me
Same
It's not that deep
@@dragonheart7901 literally or you just being an asshole? x
@@dragonheart7901 badum tss
@@corirose2549 in not joking or being an asshole though? Im just saying that the water isn't that deep to me. But maybe thats just because I'm a swimmer and grew up swimming in the 3rd largest lake in my state and that water in the video is about as deep as our public swimming pools that I also swim in every summer.
So no. Its not that deep
Edit: just searched the comments. Roughly 6 foot deep? Cmon! The public pools I swim at get to 12 ft deep at most! Jesus Christ this person must have a fear of water or something. Because my friends who can swim all say this ain't that deep. But my sister who is petrified of not being able to touch the bottom said this was deep
They should have built the bridge on the camera stand.
Whoa, mother nature! I'd have liked to have seen some stats, maybe, like information on the water crest (flood stage). Cool video! Wow.
Thanks for sharing this. Very impressive. A great teaching tool for my college courses.
As usual, Cameraman is safe n secure.
Of course. I am the cameraman.
Props to the camera man. That is some serious dedication.
Next time when mom tell you to turn off the water. You better do it.
😂This is the best comment on here.
Such a absolutely wonderful video!!!
That was amazing the way and speed that happened at. There used to be a railroad track underneath all that water. Thanx for posting this.
Only took a week
Thomas "I know the railway tracks are here somewhere..."
I was hoping to see what the tracks looked like after.
In Galena, Illinois (US) there are a pair of 20 foot tall watertight doors leading into town.
When the dry riverbed outside of town floods, sometimes it gets way too high.
That's a hell of a lot of water wtf
I AM DROWNING
Now imagine coastal US and the Pacific islands when hurricane/typhoon season happens. I've lived through Hurricane Harvey when it hit Houston, as a Houston native, I've never seen so much water cover an entire highway system, took it a really good while to recede into the gulf.
What are those lights at night? They disappear about 0:43
Rain drops!
The New Queensland Undersea Tramway. Please bring your own O2 tank.
I had to go back to the beginning of the video just to see what it was like before once more...I had forgotten by the end of the video.
Cheers from Australia 🇦🇺
why not showing when the tracks get cleared?
QR announcement: “Rail service suspended due to unexpected river”
UK rail announcement: "The rail replacement bus service has been replaced with a road replacement boat service."
Nope QR announcement : Mfftfmmmnhhhphhhfmmmffftttppp railmmfttfmmmbbhhpppfftffffttt qr
Yup, that's a lot of water. How long before the water began to recede? Any damage to the RR tracks?
Legend says: that the video stopped here because the camera was submerged and they never found it.
Some places have dirt so hard, compacted and lifeless that you can rap your knuckles on the surface and it sounds like your tapping ceramic. This is where small, frequent rainwater harvesting earthworks from onsite materials starting in the foothills/ higher areas would improve the soils and available groundwater. It would reduce catastrophic lowland flooding while increasing water supply over a longer period.
That video shows a lot of water that runs off carrying good soil and materials, while the rest evaporates off instead of absorbing deeply into the soil...
It's in a flat arid area in an area subject to inundation that flows inland.
The area is vast, subject to decaying tropical cyclones which over geological time have shaped the continent. This is the cycle of life. It might not flood like this for 70 years then it will flood like this every year for 10.
After the floods the desert comes to life.
@ThePaulv12
You're totally missing the point of my statement. Maybe I failed to explain enough.
The ground is very hard. Because it's so very compacted, little water permeates. Maybe as little as half an inch or maybe less. It may be the plants are rooting in fresh sedimentary deposits only, because the soil is so poor. Starting in any foothills with rainwater harvesting catchments made from onsite materials and continuing into the valley can transform this land's rain cycles, and plant diversity. Increasing rain harvesting will promote regreening that will restore the area to more regular, balanced hydrology. It will also recapture valuable soil and raise water tables in the area...
Train conductor: "Next station, Atlantis.."
Were the train tacks there when things dried out or were they washed away too?
When started barely going over the rails i was gunna say 8 throttle all the way but the water wouldn’t stop rising lol Thank God for track inspectors
Wait, what... That tiny puddle on the road on the right seemed to expand as if it was an underground spring. Did the water come from elsewhere through the water table?
No it was just rain
The camera: "I don't want to be here anymore."
This was near Cloncurry or Charters Towers right?
Should have shown a photo of the aftermath of that storm to that area, taken from the exact same spot.
Still need to show it. I have no idea what hapoens there.
Oh wow! Totally unreal, thank you for this footage! 😱🙀
For all those people who thought.... “wish I had a waterfront property”
If you can swim you are fine
@Matthew Aniston I dont have a house. And if I did, and it got ruined, then I would just get a job and get money
@Matthew Aniston sure, I'd be upset, but I won't let it bring me down. I'll just work for a new house. Sitting there and crying all day and being useless won't bring it back
Does anyone know how many mils of rain was measured during that period of time.
A few inches
I can’t swim and to see water rising like that is terrifying.
Put it on your bucket list. Once you're confident, go and swim somewhere nice. Do it before you die. Australians like me grow up swimming at our beaches- it really is a wonderful experience.
@@annabourbon I have tried. I cannot float which makes it hard. Before you say that isn’t possible, think again. I sink like a rock.
man i been living in south florida 17 years and always on the beach like backyard is the ocean or the canal next to it and only once i woke up and thr water was at my screen door so thr level rose 8 feet up
Congratulations, you are being saved from... "drought". Please, do not resist.
This made me laugh out loud. Thank you for putting a smile on my face this morning!
Did this occur in the Outback, or, the Infront ?
0:56 The cameraguy was sitting there like 😬: "Gettin pretty high, guys! Is this enough footage yet?!"
hahaha
@Va Sr apparently quite a lot which you can see on the camera. I think he had lots of coffee. 😆
I think it’s a security camera though
r/wooosh myself 😂
(off in the distance)
Producer: Just 30 more seconds Token.
"thAt wAS an uNMaNned cAmeRa"
“Yeah… if you believe that, I got some oceanfront property in Queensland to sell ya. Oh. Uhhhh… wait.”
Thank you for posting such great footage : )
Is this what Spirited Away looks like in real life?
Beat me to it.
And me as well.
What happens to stop the trains from going on with their routes anyway in a tragic case like this anyway? Please, can someone answer that question & reply to me about it? Thanks!
Or do they get rerouted elsewhere a different & much longer route because I know that they will always received a heads up on a monitoring system otherwise first hand. But what about everyone's 'Goods, Etc.' needing to make it into various towns too?
They don't continue on with their route - we do have meteorologists and weather reports here, you know. Queensland Rail has a very comprehensive signalling system, plus all locomotives have both two-way radio and satellite phones, so the train would have been warned and stopped long before this point. Goods are usually rerouted by truck via another inland highway such as the Kennedy Highway or else up the coastal Bruce Highway. People on passenger trains such as the Spirit of Queensland get rerouted via bus.
The video of the flood is terrifying when considering that 1 cubic metre of water is 1000 litres of water weighing 1 Metric tonne at standard temperature and pressure.
Bruh
OR 1 gallon = 8.34 pounds / OR 1 cubic foot = 7.48 gallons
It’s not like we have to carry it, right
@@Engineer9736 The comment referred to the force of water which is often under estimated by people.
Where is the second part?? I want to see more, and the bridge again
So I’m guessing if that river froze to ice, it could create a polar express train ride feeling!
This took place in Jan/Feb '19. It's summertime down there. But, yeah, otherwise that would've been cool!
This crossing is located in central Queensland. Summer temperatures around 40 degrees C and winter 25 degrees C. There are two chances that it will ever freeze over - zero and none.
I witnessed the great flood of Central Georgia firsthand in 1994. Saw one guy sitting on the steps of a soon to be flooded bank watching the water come up the steps. A one foot rise per hour. He gave up when the water finally reached the front doors.
"Hey Jim, I think we can make it. Just go really slow, so we can feel if the tracks are still there..."
Yeah, that would also be a pain in the ass to do. Because water is such a bitch to deal with, it can accumulate enough for the tires on a car to not be capable of touching the road. Just imagining what that would do to a train is somewhat scary.
at 0:03 there is a tornado, that moves from left to right
That’s just rain…
"I thought we emigrated here to get away from that infernal British rain?".....
That looks like the stretch of rail line near the Condamine River in South Eastern Queensland. . It floods like that every 6 to 10 years.
Between the city of Toowoomba and the township of Millmerran.
If we could get this down at Lake Mead, I wouldn`t have to drive 30 miles to launce my houseboat....
Well you don't have to anymore
That’s wild. Is that spot located near a river, lake or ocean?
1000 miles from the ocean. The outback can flood something fierce. Many years of no rain, then massive rain. They also get ex-tropical cyclones that degenerate into rain depressions as they cross the coast and head inland,.causing massive floods. Normal for arid climates around the world. It just happened in Dubai.
Plot twist: Everything you are seeing is happening upside down.
but it was upside down so does that mean that it's right side up now?
I'm so confused lol
@@raven4k998 no it’s still upside down. the gravity is reduced from the way it hangs off the earth like a drop of water on a shower rod…that’s why the floods are so bad.
@@JoeOvercoat no it is upside down to begin with cause you are walking around on the outside of a sphere kiddo so if it is flipped then it is right side up
@@raven4k998 OMG there is NO AIR OUTSIDE THE SPHERE GET IN HERE!|
@@JoeOvercoat there is air in here come close and cuddle we can share my air baby
AMAZING how much water can run over deserts in these flash flood events. If there were only some way you could get more of it to soak into the ground! Thanks for sharing an amazing video!
I think this is why they call it "The Wet" in Australia.
Dunno if true, read about train approaching a trestle bridge (in QLD) and you can just see the tracks. The driver hesitated and when the floodwaters receeded, the bridge was gone, the tracks and sleepers just crossed the open space.
In floodwaters, the bridge gets hit with debris and the rushing water weakens the bridge supports.
In Victoria the old bridge at Stratford had timber members shaped like a boat around the brick bridge support to ease the debris aside.
The new bridge just has rebar concrete supports, be interesting if it stands the test of time.
Reminds me a lot of that train scene in Spirited Away where it rains and it looks like an ocean covering the tracks. except having a much more beautiful and peaceful sort of vibe to it and it had so much more color. I loved that movie so much and still do even to this day when I first saw it so many years ago.
I watched Spirited Away last week. Wonderful movie. I love Studio Ghibli movies in general.
Nature doing what nature does best. Incredible footage.
This was a “swell” video!
What’s the center rail for?
This video looks way better in 2x speed!
All that water had nowhere to go. Are there no drainage ditches in Oz?
This is in a very remote area of north-west Queensland. The entire area is a 800 km wide flat flood plain.
How many days did it take for all this water to drain away? Does floodwater like that go away on its own?
@@Religious_man Yes it goes away on it's own, usually in a few days.
@@chooseyourpoison5105 At least that's great news in a world of insanity.