Floods, again

Well, seems I'll be living through the third major Brisbane flood in my life time.  It has been extremely wet in the Western suburbs today, and the promised move of the worst of the rain band to the south of the city just never seems to happen.

More news tomorrow...

 

Update:   Anyone who has lived in Brisbane for a long time would agree the weather yesterday was very unusual.   We're used to storms that whip through in the space of 30 minutes to an hour, dump a huge amount of rain, and are gone.   What we don't see much is systems that produce thundery slow storms that hang around for, like, 6 to 9 hours?  The rain just kept coming yesterday, with only occasional slow downs in rate.  Mostly, steady heavy rain with bursts of "torrential".

As with 2011, it's kind of weird.  If you can get to an unaffected suburban shopping centre, you wouldn't necessarily know how bad the flood affected parts are going.  But roads are cut everywhere:

The flooding in my area (which is close to the river) is not a high as 2011, but there are businesses and houses well under.   Unexpectedly, the power has gone off at home due to flood damage.  (As per 2011, when it was off for a day.)   But other streets not far away still have power, which seems odd.

 

I have read someone saying that it was a record 3 day rainfall event, but haven't seen that confirmed yet.

 

Anyway, what a weekend for doom scrolling - floods and the threat of nuclear war....