2022 Brisbane Floods - one year on
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ส.ค. 2024
- On February 26, 2022, the Brisbane River broke its banks as a severe weather system intensified over South East Queensland. In the three days to February 28, large areas of the region received over 1000mm of rainfall. For context, Brisbane has an average annual rainfall total of around 1148mm.
Where I live in Jindalee, the Brisbane River didn't reach the same heights as 2011, but because of the nature of this event, damage was far more widespread than a decade earlier.
A year has now passed since this event, and I thought I would share some of the footage I collected of the time, as a reminder of what a catastrophe it was and, I hope, something we don't see repeated again in my life time.
However, given it was only 11 years after the previous one, and climate change making severe weather events more frequent and more extreme, perhaps this is the new normal?
There are people whose homes were flooded who have still not got their insurance companies to repair the damage. There are people in repeatedly flood prone areas fighting to have their homes bought out by the government or their local council to prevent a repeat. Many people were flooded without warning.
We had two flood inquiries at state and council level, and it's fair to say, few lessons are being learnt by our political establishment and the greedy, profit hungry insurance industry.
I fear we're in for a lot worse before things get better.
0:00 Introduction
0:45 Saturday February 26, 2022 - Jindalee and Seventeen Mile Rocks
4:40 Monday February 28, 2022 - Jindalee
8:09 Tuesday March 1, 2022 - Jindalee
11:29 Friday March 4, 2022 - Jindalee
12:19 Saturday March 5, 2022 - Indooroopilly, West End, Auchenflower, Milton, Toowong
16:47 Sunday March 6, 2022 - Jindalee, Seventeen Mile Rocks
Hard to think it was a year ago. Great footage.
Great video. I just shared it on my community tab. Thanks for making this and sharing!
Thanks so much! It was such a surreal time. I never thought I would experience a Brisbane River flood in my lifetime. I grew up believing Wivenhoe solved it.
I've now lived through 2 in just over a decade...
Thank you for sharing.
Never thought I'd drive by RBWH just to see a river OVER Bowen Bridge
Thanks for the video Chris.
I, like you, have lived through 2 of these memorable floods. I wish I had the ability to do these journeys and experience the thing more broadly but sadly both times I was battling with the impacts on my own property to put my head up and look around.
My property didn't get flooded THIS time but I think I did around 1000 towels out of my daughters room and in the end needed to replace roof, ceiling and floor in my dining room.
It is nice??? to retrospectively look at the impacts on our city and community via your videos.
Yeah, not "nice", and I felt weird saying I hope people enjoy it - I mean, you don't enjoy people's suffering. But even just looking back at the video footage I had forgotten a lot of what I'd seen, and how it made me feel at the time. I think it's important to be able to remember that.
We live opposite Enoggera Creek. Fast rising roaring wave of fast angry water left our street devastated. 170 cm of water through the garage of our home. We were lucky as it stopped about 30 cm below the flooring beams. Many of the homes are still in repair mode ,mainly it seems due to shortages. We are braced and holding our breath until wet season is past!
Yeah that was a big difference between this and 2011. The creeks were absolutely raging this time. I remember in 2011 we escaped the eerie flood zone in Jindalee to stay with family on the north side. Life was carrying on as normal and nobody seemed bothered. It was so weird...
This time the whole city suffered.
I think you may have also attended the Jindalee Ck bridge with a shovel. That was an exercise in futility
No, but I went over it the following Sunday and noticed it had started to collapse. I called it through. Now it's gone and awaiting replacement further south closer to the gym.