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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
Hard to think it was a year ago. Great footage.
Never thought I'd drive by RBWH just to see a river OVER Bowen Bridge
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.