The Flood Of 2011: A look at the floods that inundated Queensland | 2011 | 7NEWS
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- In this 7NEWS Special Presentation from 2011, Rod Young and Kay McGrath look back at the pictures and stories of Queenslanders affected by the floods of 2011. Communities from Rockhampton to Brisbane and west to Theodore were inundated. Many lost their homes, some lost their lives.
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I remember watching all of this whilst living in Germany and my husband and I were so taken with Queenslanders toughness and resilience we decided to move here, 8 years later still here and have seen our fair share of floods but nothing on this scale.
The rest of Australia paid a flood levy to help QLD recover.
Welcome to Queensland
@@AUmarcus And still many flood victims haven't been compensared, ten years on
@@allanmckenzie6696
That's not because of the taxpayers who paid the levy....they didnt have a choice.
Until 2022….. 😭
Be interesting in 10 years when we have a historical documentary on the year that was 2020
Was thinking exact same
It actually started on Dec 25th 2010
@@alwyngreen7205 I think they're talking about the Rona.
@@LilacDaisy2 this person who I commented on yes but the news no they’re talking bout the floods.
Can’t wait for things to get back to normal
@@alwyngreen7205 Me too! I hope our government finally cuts ties with The World Economic Forum's "Great Reset"
I still remember the smell and sound of it, the emergency services and people worked that well together with social media, Higgins Storm Chasing deserved the medal of Australia for the amount of lives the saved by warning people through Facebook
They still deserve so much every day theyre updating everything always better than any “news”
Think they warned that the dam walls should be opened to avoid worse flooding 😟
@@FluffyPetal84 if the dam had gone brisbane wouldnt exist
Higgins deserves an award for everything
I'll never forget when I walked out to the street of laidley and everyone was screaming to evacuate as the wall of water was coming and there was excavators and bobcats pulling up the rd to use as a barracade in desperation to save the houses and businesses....didn't save them😭
Proud member of Queensland's mud army.
Bless
Proud of you.
I’m so proud to be a Queenslander! The Queensland spirit is real!!!!
The Anna Bligh speech saying “remember who we are. We are Queenslanders.”, always brings tears to the eyes.
I still remember it. Having to work extra shifts to cover those who couldn't make it to work (security). The eerie feeling driving thru the tunnel when it was the only way to cross the city north/south....The worry over the North Pine Dam as I lived close to it, having only one road out of Strathpine.....
Watching this brought tears, as it also reminded of the personal toll 2011 took on me in other ways.
Was working in Brisbane City at the time, and most of us weren't working but glued to the windows watching the river rising, till they told us to evacuate. Roma Street Station was jam packed with people trying to get out of the city. Got home eventually to witness the heart breaking scenes from Toowoomba and Grantham.
I remember this well! I was outside and it started raining so I came inside. Ten minutes later I went to check on the guinea pigs as the yard had already flooded about 20cm!! In 10 mins!! I found my little darlings in their hutch breathing what was the last bit of air left in it with their little noses poking out of the water. I got them out the nick of time!!
I hope they were alright. Scary!
budgiebreder they sure were! Went on to live long and happy lives :)
@@happyearthfamily8763 great to hear! I hope they got a new higher home after this?
What these images can't capture is the putrid smell of the mud and debris and decay once the water subsides. Just watching this brings back the memory of that smell.
Exactly and those wading through the water are also wading through sewage. Doctors should have been lined up giving owners and volunteers shots.
How amazing so many people work together to help cleaning after the flood. Good Aussie spirits. Proud to be a Queenslander.
Mustn't be Australian if u find this "amazing" next time chip in likr now for example
I was in the royal brisbane hospital at that time. It was surreal that just across the road an evacuation shelter had been set up.
I remember when May 2009 there was a big storm and fellow morning staff got warned to go and race for their cars at Downey Park. Two colleagues got trapped down there until QFRS could get there. Not sure how Herston coped it in 2010/11
I remember being there in Ipswich.
We were warned about the cyclone coming, but it changed course at the end.
We were told to evacuate to the showground, but the only road we could take was completely flooded.
Luckily we were in Flinders view and were completely safe.
I'm very proud to say that my fiance and many of his squadron (RAAF) helped with rescue and clean up.
I worked in pharmacy at the time, and there were so many people with illnesses due to the flood waters.
What an amazing community spirit everyone had though.
The people in the days of Noah had over a hundred years of flood warning and yet they did not repent.
Saddest of times... Floods, followed a few years later by severe drought and then the devastating bush fires. Mother Nature is giving us the heads up of what we will have to contend with in the years ahead.
8:14 - 9:00 this is what Australians do. Good on ya Aussie 🇦🇺. Thankyou to all the volunteers.
We were so lucky that the floods stopped at the end of our street.
The clean up of our neighbourhood was insane
It just came up to the house i was at at that time in Coominya. Like,literally just stopped at the doorstep.
you Aussies could teach us a thing or two about handling a disaster, keeping a good attitude and being kind to one another. Very resilient, good rescue services. But above all good calm attitude
Brisbane Community will always be strong in helping one another - in good times and bad times! God bless them!
Just thinking how scomo would of delt with this would make me sick
Welcome to a pandemic 2020....Hypothetically speaking, how do you think an ALP/Greens COALITION government would have handled this?
He’d let annastasia palasckuk do all the work and take credit
@@Maxarlie has he taken any credit for WA’s process? NO! He even tried to fight it at one point, but withdrew when he knew he was WRONG!!
The nation is gradually getting this situation under control, and we are almost to the point where national travel can occur again!
Now is ABSOLUTELY NOT the time to be taking sides...NOW IS THE TIME to make sure everyone stays free of SARS-COV-2 and that we can travel between states again, with the assurance that we won’t contract COVID-19 while on a flight or while we’re at our destination!
Yes, Scomo is our PM for a little while longer, but you can NOT DENY that as a PM, he has handled this pandemic better than anyone in the EU or even the USA!!
10 Months later, and I’m STILL waiting for a reply from @shandy, whose either ill-informed, or partisa, attack on our duly elected federal government, was met with a response, but has not been replied to!!!
@@Dozeball Shandy wrote that 11 months ago, you only first replied to them 2 months ago. A lot of people don't actually have TH-cam comment notifications turned on.
Is it so "ill-informed" to feel sick at the thought of our PM handling the 2011 weather events?? A PM who massively bungled the Black Summer fires...someone who was more concerned with his own image couldn't be bothered to stop and actually listen to the people unless they made him feel as though he wasn't in the way and that it made for a good photo-op.
While it is nice to see the PM has finally wiped the sleep from his eyes and acted, it does not mean the HE has handled the pandemic better than some in the EU. Nearly everything this government has done has been due to Anthony Albanese and the unions constantly pushing him to do something. What the PM and Treasurer have done have found more excuses to cut the corporate tax rate and forced many small businesses to lay off their workers before Jobkeeper would be paid out, making them ineligible for Job keeper....or what Frydenberg called "an integrity measure". So essentially cut big business taxes and give big business tax money. Let's not even get started on pandemic preparedness...🙄
In terms of the pandemic, the main reason we have been so lucky with Covid is largely due to:
-Being an island nation... can't just jump the border fence.
-Population size and density
-Incoming traffic/tourism at the start of the year was significantly lower
While comparisons between nations is pretty hard to determine as each situation is different and the spread is caused by different reasons...by comparison, when counting in all factors, Germany has handled the Coronavirus better.
Scott Morrison is good for nothing 🙃
Why is it that we need disaster for us Australians to come together we should all respect each other no matter what comes through our path
I was born in 2003 and experienced the 2011 floods. I remember everything to this day. It was a right clusterfuck! Us aussies remember that the ADF was there for me and my family. That was why I joined!!!
It was actually dec 25th 2010 - jan 2011
I know this because it was the year I lost my daughter, I was diagnosed with cancer n we were stuck in kooralbyn, but we don’t get a mention
We were stuck in our tiny unit thankfully on the 3rd level with 2 kids
That’s my Dad at Suncorp Stadium in the kayak.. he was stuck there😱
Time 😯😯
@@stevethea5250 @5:14 mark
@@Stephanie-uz3vz omg HI DAD
What was he doing there
The Best thing I've seen in a long time the help ppl have given each other was heart warming!
.. watching again now here... So sad to know we’re facing another floods here in February 2022 Australia QLD-NSW 😢 it caused so much damage again to all these homes
I was really young when this happened but I remember everything about it. The smell and sound and the constant news reports.
Me too but I can’t remember anything maybe it’s because we didn’t get hit that hard because we were on a Hill
look at Queenslanders man so inspirational
Still proud of Queensland! And brisbane ! It’s The Australia spirit
Very proud of Queensland. A standard all of Australia should hope to meet.
What measures have been put in place to stop it happening again?
Less rain
Exactly, nothing has been honestly learnt and nothing has been seriously changed.
This can and will happen again, it's only a matter of when.
Sally, they didn't build on flood plains in 1974 but they have been since and continue to do so right now.
@@Sally-nj5wn Hi sally, go check out the newest video on the "Practical Engineering " youtube channel. He just released a video about flood control.
@@Sally-nj5wn what's important to remember here is brisbane had gone through 6 odd years of drought prior to 2011 floods. There were water restrictions etc with government charging $$$ for excess use of water. After drought, goverments greed took over and kept inflatted water prices, whilst maintaining large supply(almost full capacity) not releasing water earlier. It rained a lot in 2nd half of 2010.
I remember being there! I was in North lake's! The rain was astonishing! Like the Shower on full outside! For hours it rained hard. Was very lucky not to be affected apart from having a couple of days or so off work. It was neat time being apart of something historical! Love Australia and all the people who live stay and visit!!!! Queenslanders are simply amazing at coming together in time like these and it works well! Xoxoxoxo
I was living in goodna at the time I am proud to have been a part of the mud army Aussie spirit at its best people came from all around Australia to help
yep goodna too, remember the flood waters being above red rooster
If god existed he wouldn’t do something so evil
If you make a cake can you throw it in the bin? If you make a painting do you have the right to paint over that painting? You get what I'm getting out?
@@elijahharing I do. But if “god” was all loving he wouldn’t do that
@@wwemario12345 It's because He is loving that it hurts us.
@@elijahharing excactly. So he either exists and is not loving or he doesn’t exist
Do a documentary on what happened to all the donated flood relief money now please.
Yikes. How cruel is that -- the victims didn't get the given funds?
@@LilacDaisy2 Many of them haven't, ten years on
@@allanmckenzie6696 Wow, that's callous.
So you have evidence to prove money given wasn’t used? I don’t know if you do or not, just asking.
I’ll never forget when this happened, I was only 5 years old but I remembered everything, I was so scared it was the end, but now it’s soon to be 2021😆
Yes a very traumatizing event, myself like lots of other ppl lost their jobs. I hear now after 9 yrs they are raising the wall of Wivenhoe dam again
I was nine 🥺
Same! I was five as well and we lost the downstairs of our house and had to restructure it.
@@pennymunday2333 oh my god,I’m sorry bout that, We ended up getting kicked out of our house so we had too move
@@PINKVENOMGIRLS awww 🥺
I was a teenager in 2011, I remember the news of Toowoomba on the news really stressed me out. I wanted to watch it again because I thought my young mind had exaggerated it, but no, it was an inland tsunami, not just flash flooding, the damage was crazy.
That La Niña is here again.
I've since moved back to the UK, I can still remember the stink of the mud when were cleaning up. It lasted for months.
Beautiful volunteers people's come help to clean. 💞🙏
i remember i was in the ipswich coles and is started to fill up dramatically, it was scary
Sad, yes very sad!. Brings, me memories of the most tragic morning EVER in Darwin, December 25th, 1974! Big Love
I was lucky enough to be in both!! Dad was RAAF at the time.
Not a single mention about the amount of water that came down the Fassifern Valley, all that water meets at Amberly. We totally lost bridges and roads the water was that high and powerful.
Kevin Rudd the king
Hell year he is, my family was able to get back on its feet because of the funding he gave everyone, we have gotten absolutely fucking no charity money
I live near gatton of anyone was wondering
You mean the former leader of the ‘blue collar’ party who now resides in a $17 million dollar home. What a joke.
@@johnny-yi2oi he worked hard his whole life and tried to better the country, I have no qualms with his being rewarded
@@LureThosePixels thankfully you having no qualms about that is meaningless and irrelevant. When you supposedly dedicate your life’s work to represent the working class only to go and retire to a mansion,that doesn’t make you a hero, it makes you a hypocrite.
My cousin and I were working in Morayfield shopping centre and we were told that a wall of water was coming and we could not leave. Not because of work but because it was a public safety lock down!
We talked about it and we told the boss and the police that we were leaving and going home to our family. So we left. It was very scarry but we knew we had a half hour gap to get back to Caboolture so we took it. It was a good choice but if we waited 15mins longer we wouldn't of made it. We knew the area and knew we had a small gap. Some people waited and they didn't make it. That was a fucking horrible day. glad to a Queenslander we all worked together to sort out some help with whatever we could.
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And so much could have been avoided if they had released the water earlier like they were warned to do.... Brisbane City Council has alot to answer too still.....
Wivenhoe was at almost 200% . Who would have thought that Toowoomba would flood and Wivenhoe was only 1 foot away from the dam wall completely collapsing
@@darylkanofski9327 lots of people
And people are still living on Brisbane's flood plains and will be looking for someone else to blame in the next flood.
Both Somerset and Wivenhoe dams are both capable of doubling their storage volumes for flood mitigation yet the inflows in early 2011 were so massive Wivenhoe dam nearly overtopped as the inflows were over three times the capacity of its spillway.
We'll forget all the creeks and rivers that enter the Brisbane river below Wivenhoe that no one has any influence over.
The insanity of where many of us choose to live and work is such that parts of Brisbane flood on high tides so saving them from themselves in extraordinary rainfall events is a pipe dream.
Why are these people still living where they do even after the various buy back schemes?
@@tbonemc2118 cause it’s home mate. Not being a smart arse ✌️
Wow I still remember this day was so scary
A beautiful country, beautiful people, I’m tipping a glass to all of the residents, rescuers, animals who have had to suffer and endure these acts of nature✨🍺
People forget the brisbane 2013 floods, drives me nuts. Had mates houses go under on both 2011 and 2013.
My house was almost underwater in 2013. Scary stuff.
"Queensland" = "Brisbane" Maybe 7News should take a drive and realise there is an entire state out there
To think that another La Niña (the thing that was partially to blame for 2011) is coming this year, is just terrifying.
Not bad yet
Should happen in 2021 lot of rain
@@issy_k5291 the la Nina peaked two months ago and might end as early as February
Taylor Matthews - La Niña is going to continue until April 2021
Wow, the clean-up!!! I wonder if those houses where the water reached the gutters were rebuilt on high stumps. How could you see all your stuff turn muddy and be thrown out, and then not go to higher ground?
I was 11 when this happened, an Australian kid living in New Zealand. Didn't quite grasp how huge it was till I moved over a year later. Such an awful time.
I hate to say this but what has been done since to stop another flood
The answer is nothing, and there is a very good reason for that: No current vaccine is perfectly safe to immunise the population against this particular strain of Coronavirus, which has been around for centuries (Coronavirus, not this particular strain!)....On top of that, we are living in an age of imbeciles and complete nut-cases, who think that new mobile technology (5G) will give you cancer (Same conspiracy arose with 4G, but less prominent), the coronavirus vaccine is reprogramming our DNA, et cetera.
The world needs another extinction-level event...SOMETHING, ANYTHING, to wipe the stupid from humanity, so that we can start again, and hopefully do better, so that the we can expand out into space.
I was eight at the time. On the 11th we had to rush my auntie into the mater as she was days away from her due date and she wanted to be there before she got stuck. Had my cousin on the 13th
90 calls for help were responded to. There were more than that number of calls for help from what I heard, but the people on the exchange did not know what to do. It was raining everywhere in Toowoomba, not just on the side of the range as the announcer just said at 10.21mns. Maybe they needed to speak to the people who lived through this in Toowoomba instead of making stuff up. It rained very heavily everywhere. The water on the town side ran down into town and the water on the range side ran down the hills (Rifle Range Road included, where water flowed through people's back doors and out their front doors) and kept flowing down the mountain into the Lockyer Valley. I also heard from Murphy's Creek people that the same thing happened to them, opened their doors so the water could flow through from one side to the other.
So in another words - poor city planning in well know and documented flood plains.
A disaster made far worse by incompetent people in charge.
Choose to live by water ways and low lying areas, one must expect this. May not happen tomorrow but it will happen.
@@Katrinagaming-en1os Yep, about every 30 years since records began.
Grant Lockyer, journo reporting from Lockyer Valley, drowned there. The Wyvenhoe dam, ready to burst. Businesses in Brisbane with their generators in basements.
Lucky I live in Salisbury
I was there. I can tell you now that the old Queenslander houses were OK but the new houses are demolished. Pine wood and single storey homes will never work here.
Imagine monetising this video
I suppose we _were_ volunteers. At the time it just seemed like everyone cleaning up.
I spent a week without power on mt tambourine, it was turned into an island .
Bullshit . Could get down no problem
@@jamezxh aye
@@jedtorpy1183 Oleg said it was an island . I live up there and didn’t have any issues travelling
@@jamezxh what where you driving a boat ? I tried all the roads I knew, stanmore rd creek was flooded from just after the fish farm down
ya couldn't get to the pub or jimboomba and the road to Logan well I would have to turn right at the pub . I was in a road car not a 4x4 . or a canoe lol
@@thedevilsworkshop7720 Henry roberts drive was fine
Problem number 4. They left it too late to open the spill gates in a timely manner so when they finally did it was too late and places that had never flooded before flooded.
The music is horrible. Very distracting.
nsw moree sydney everywhere flooded too! in 2011! I was only 1 yrs old then!
Maybe a flood near the fires could help
Got your wish
Rain*
@@gheufbfff again
I was 8 years old at the time and I remember everything it was so horrible.
I am surprised no one is cry in Queensland during flood
Come to Canada. NOTHING happens here. No tornadoes, no hurricanes, no floods, no earthquakes, no tornadoes. A few forest fires on the west coast.
But we have a clown for a prime minister.
Much better than a twister!
What a time I was in Nsw at this time now i live in qld
We are gonna cop it again THIS YEAR ...... 🌊
Yes
@@taylormatthews6086
No
@@coasteyscoasteys it's going to be not going to be nearly as much rain but it's going to be wetter than average
No hay peor criminal en el mundo que el agua. Sin ella no vivimos?? Y por ella muchos morimos. 😪😪😪
Anna Bligh really did a marvellous job.Thanks Anna.
I think she surprised a lot of ppl on the job she done
Are you taking the piss?? It was her fault this happened! This was not a natural flood. You have no idea!
ahhaha @ the guy casually having a smoke, like nothing happened 12:26
why do the news reporters look like theyre from the 1970s
Thank you for sharing..
new year 2021 new disaster in oz before 2020 bushfire now 2021 flood almighty water
I was living in Brisbane when this happened was living up in the Northside.. Morayfield days
i can still see poles in the brisbane river
wow this is sad. what have we done to prepare for the next one? ... probably nothing
I was out at Warwick during this weather,it's odd to think town's flood out,bad management of the water ways, something,s off.
So what would have happened if the late 1800 flood happened with a height of 7.2 metres ! Way above 1974 or 2011 !
19 metres in 2011
Next Flood, is now comes with Covid-19 !
I was stranded at home Nanango, Queensland watching this all week and couldn't go to work cause the roads was flooded to Kingaroy. I remember on news the only insurance company to pay up was Suncrop the other's made excuses not to pay the people back for house insurance.
Amen and Amen
As I was 4 when it happened, I remember it easily, I lived in the suburbs and I had friends at that time on my street, I remember it starting to rain so we all went inside, then a day had passed and my street was flooded, My first story had suffered about a metre of water and we had to move out of that house and demolish it because of mold. We had lost power in day two of the rain and sewage was coming through our taps also on day 2. This time in 2022 we had no flooding because we had bought a flood proof house, Although In 2022 they could’ve done better with the clean up crews
“We are Queenslanders”
Northern NSW: AM I A JOKE TO YOU?!?
yes well qld was hit harder then NSW mate. NSW got piss all to what aus got
Yes you are
Name 1 town that got washed away like Grantham did
@@fartboyateme7213
The rest of us paid a flood levy so QLD could recover.
@@AUmarcus lol
I was 8 back then so all I really thought was hey look there are people swimming in the park that looks fun
I remember this I was a kid
This brings bad ban bad memories back for me
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Wonder how many people got sick from infections from the Mud Army and mould etc. I remember council having to set up formal volunteer systems for that reason
In 1974 mass vaccination centers were set up and ‘mud army’ volunteers lined up for tetanus shots.
How sad
2022 was just like 2011
Who else was recommended this early 2021?
I'm glad that we decided never again.
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