Australia Day Weekend Weather

[oldmate]

Stay safe Mal, won't ya mate. Looks like a few days of for you this week. I am sitting at home, and the wind has been wild all night and doesn't look like stopping

[Clouty]

As expected, no power on this morning yet. Mary River has risen substantially over night so we won't be going anywhere for days yet. I woke thinking it was raining heavy here this morning, but it was just the sound of the river rushing down stream.

Hope you haven't run out of rum mal...
Stay safe mate..
To any swaggers out there that are in flood affected areas.. Be safe..

[Sicilianmama]

Hope everyone is staying safe, soggy, but safe!

[sonny]

Jeeps hope you get out of there OK,  so glad my son got out of the Beaudesert area about 4pm yesterday, stay safe

[Rob C]

What a wasted long weekend.
Now the power has gone off so a challenge to get into the garage ( auto doors) and to get out the front gate ( auto gate)
All good when there is power but not so good without.
Hope the Movie theatre has power!!!

Rob C

[jeeps]

Got out! 12 hours stuck with nowhere to go. Lots of water. Managed to get home, hell of a drive with landslides, trees, rocks, debris etc  but there's people out here who still can't get home so they're camped at my place





cheers

[Foo]

Where about's that Jeeps, I'm assuming it's on the south side of town near Karralbin?(spelling)

Foo

[britts]

Good to see that everyone is safe, I left in inlaws last night about 5pm home about 10pm rained all the way, MIL went to go to the shop this morning and was flooded in the bridge was about 4m above the water yesterday morning,orara river @ nana glen

[jeeps]

Where about's that Jeeps, I'm assuming it's on the south side of town near Karralbin?(spelling)

Foo

Yes it's around that spot i believe. Finally managed to get a few home by about 5pm this arvo after trying to get home last night. There's a fair bit of damage to roads, shops are all picked clean, servo's are out of fuel and can't get restocked. We had 340ml rain in 24hr. Here's some more pics:


This bridge was out for 20 hrs. One that we had to cross to get some friends home.





This bottle washed down the creek from somewhere. This pic taken after the firies pulled up from the water's edge to make it safe.





Logan River broke it's banks...





Logan River cuts Mt Lindsay Hwy at Laravale. If you watched 7 news and saw the boys getting recovered from their swamped ute that was on the other side of this river, about 900 metres on the other side. This should go down by 8am tomorrow.




cheers

[Rumpig]

Stay safe Mal, won't ya mate. Looks like a few days of for you this week. I am sitting at home, and the wind has been wild all night and doesn't look like stopping

high and dry and staying safe mate, could have tried to get out through fast flowing waters Sunday morning but it just wasn't worth the risk, rather lose a few days off work then lose our lives trying to crossing a swollen creek flowing as quickly as this was.

Hope you haven't run out of rum mal...
Stay safe mate..

funny thing is, Friday night just after 9.00 p.m i stopped in at The Jockey Club on the way past and grabbed an extra carton of Bundy cans incase we got flooded in...now that's planning for ya  better planning would have been to leave 30 minutes earlier then we tried to do on Sunday morning, we would have made it out then 
power is back on here we we are, massive thanks for the hard working guys who are restoring power to the grid all around effected parts of Qld whilst we sit at home nice and comfy.

[Frostd]

We have had about 350mm in the last three days, down our way, but nothing like it has been north of the border. The rain cleaned out all of the caravan parks from kingscliff to Pottsville.  With only the odd one out, like at Pottsville, this morning, the CT was there, but the tent had fallen down. Looked like they had abandoned ship during the night.  The seas were huge with very, very strong winds.  There was even a couple of fisherman on the beach at Cabaritta and Kingscliff break walls.

[Flemo]

The seas were huge with very, very strong winds.  There was even a couple of fisherman on the beach at Cabaritta and Kingscliff break walls.

Hope they weren't trying to cast into it, would have been going backwards..This was Lennox point this arvo, pretty massive and windy as, prob breaking 500m offshore at the beach. Was expecting to see some euro in a wicked van having a crack but alas I overestimated their stupidity level.

[Frostd]

Flemo, It was a double take there for a minute, because that is almost exactly what my pics looked like from Caba & Hasto's headland.

[Rumpig]

finally just on midnight we are home   
had to drive through some flood water still to get out, nothing serious as we waited until after dinner to be sure it wouldn't be a drama (could have left around 5.00 - 6.00 p.m at bonnet deep but decided to wait more to be sure no water would enter the vehicle), had to take some diversions as the way we intended getting out still was flooded in some parts, but once onto the hwy South of Gympie it was a good run home.
yard looks to need a small tidy up, but on the up side we haven't lost power here at any stage by the looks of it, so the stuff in the fridge should be edible still.
will post some pics up tomorrow when i get a chance