There wasn't much organisation in all honesty at the pub/info centre where I signed up to volunteer, nobody really knew where to send me so I just drove around aimlessly til I was given the phone number of a girl. She then pointed me in the direction of a local whose little holiday cabin had been inundated, so I cleaned that up, and erm, went home?!

Yeah it got that stage in some areas where there were just too many volunteers and donations that it was hard to manage, especially a few days later.

Great spirit though that everyone turned up.

Our road had the last kerbside stuff collected today and now a huuuuuuuuuge thunderstorm has broken upon us.

I don't think it was because they'd too many volunteers, I just think that so many peoples homes were beyond repair and stuff, really not good! Poor souls... My heart goes out to the people of Grantham right now, cant stop thinking about what they must be going thru...

Me too! Very sad.

In some Brisbane suburbs it seems to have been a case - certainly over the weekend - of too many volunteers. People were turning up and being unable to help because there wasn't enough transport, and sheer volume of numbers made organisation difficult.

There seems to be lots of help, I was out shopping today and noticed a collection box for the floods on the check out that really needed emptying it was overflowing with $10 & $20 notes

Also my friends family have been located all is well.

That's fantastic news

Very stange here as we are moving back to "normal" working; once things move more into a Recovery stage rather than a Response we start to hand over to other departments to take the lead. It seems almost wrong that we are thinking of getting back to "normal" when for so many people "normal"will never be the same again.
We also realised tonight that the benchmarks at work have now changed. All of us here used to use TC Larry as the measuring stick for how bad things were, what requests we got, what meteorological records were broken etc. All that's changed now, this event overshadows everything.

I was filing flood warnings tonight, and came across one of those from that fateful night in the Lockyer Valley. Quoting the Bureau for "Lockyer Creek on Jan 10th......"Record flood levels of 18.92 metres were recorded at Gatton this evening before the equipment failed. This level is well above the previously recorded peak of 16.33 metres from the February 1893 flood."
So not only did the creek rise more than two and a half METRES higher than the previous record set in 1893, but it kept rising after the equipment failed under the deluge That is a terrifying amount of water.

Those images of the water rushing through Towoomba were horrific! It was pretty terrifying, would never have belived that amount of water could rush down the street like that if it hadn't been captured on camera.

Amazing wasn't it, just so glad I decided against popping into the CBD that day, things could've been soooooo different!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X1MDqMylNI

Pretty cool footage. At about 2.40 ish in the dark you see the footbridge come apart

Nice song.

Tis, was that written especially?!

Doesn't look like it as it's on her new album 'Hazardous' according to Google.

o ok lol

I just twigged myself. How slooow am I???

Must be Friday.