Jaycee1

Just watched Newsround (without John Craven) and the top story was the flooding in NSW??
Came on to check the areas and no mention
Is everyone alright??
J x

Fly Away

My 7 year old just ran in to tell me about this. They very helpfully said flooding in 'the East'. No town / area names. It must be bad if they mention it on UK news.

Hope everyone's OK.

cresta57

We had a bit of rain over the holidays
There's extensive flooding in NSW & QLD, it's all good we needed a drop or two.
There's been loads of threads on the rain,floods, cyclones & storms you've just missed them

Fly Away

No - I saw all the threads. This was a new story saying that 'an area' (unspecified) had just been flooded out - people evacuated etc. Footage of homes under water, people being rescued. Now, this of course could be very old news, it being Newsround, I just assumed that it had happened in the last 24 hours. Very odd.

Funkey Monkey

Would have been more info in john craven's day!!!

Jaycee1

I know!! So I presume it is central/remote NSW and QLD?
J x

sunshine23

howdy all

not really remote area. roads were flooded about a mile from us. could not get to my brothers in mudgeeraba. while driving home from work on friday the traffic was stopped on the M1 as people were watching the water flowing under the motorway. it has rained pretty bad here but we needed the water. Our dam is now at 100% and overflowing. Woo Hoo

Sunshine23.

NickyC

The flooding is in the north of NSW. Quite a lot of people live there and it's not the slightest bit remote .

Plenty about it in the Sydney papers: http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/...554571562.html

MartinLuther

Here's another story from the Age
http://www.theage.com.au/news/nation...554571383.html

I did see it on TV last night. Everyone seemed calm and the SES seemed to be getting on with it.

Has the panic buying started in the UK yet?

Vim Fuego

There was one road open out of our place on Monday morning (out of 3 feasible routes), plenty of water around but no damage to property locally as far as I could see.

Down the road a few k there was extensive damage though and some people were trapped. Pays to have a good flood survey done when you're buying ...

Pollyana

Still quite a few properties cut off and a possibility of food drops being needed. Also lots of properties still without power/phones due to line damage.

Timber Floor Au

you out Canungra way? they got hit bad didnt they

Vim Fuego

Not out that far but getting there, we aren't quite as low-lying as that but the access roads tend to be up and down so cop it a bit.

Timber Floor Au

least the Mt Tamborine Waterford rd has been resurfaced !!

Used to be a nightare driving along there when it was all pot holes

Vim Fuego

Still get a fair few accidents on that road, they'll have to seriously upgrade it when the big Yarrabilba development goes in ... or provide a decent link east to Beenleigh.

It's not the surface that's the problem, it's the arrogant selfish drivers.