Flooding?
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I don't think anyone got flooded but I could be wrong. Even the houses by the river are all high up so I think we all came out okay.
We got cut off from civilisation for a few days because the three paths in (Colleges Crossing, Allawah Rd Weir and Moggill Rd Anstead) got flooded.
A second, higher, bridge is being built over the weir so this won't happen again.
Basically, the first warning you will get of being flooded out is when Noah gets recalled to active service.
Brisbane River is an extremely windy river and makes it a lovely river to get a river frontage block but very difficult to get a direct route or bridge over it. Mount Crosby is in the same proximity as Karana Downs and is the furthest reach of the tidal point of the Brisbane River. In Mount Crosby, above a riverside park: Colleges crossing is the Weir for the water supply of Brisbane City. Above the Weir is Wivenhoe dam. The river areas flood. The low areas flood when the river is in full flood
My sister has a home 200 metres above sea level up on a hill, that was wiped out in the Brisbane floods of 2011. Look at Toowoomba, the highest elevated regional city in Queensland taken out by floods. No one can claim anywhere in South East Queensland is " flood free ". Iived on a mountain near Tarragindi and one afternoon watched a flash flood take away all the cars in the street. Brisbane is built downsteam of dam catchments and that's the issue. We lost ou family home under 16 metres of flash flood in 1974 when the Government opened the dam gates. I was born down stream 60 years' ago and I still get surprised of flooding