Flooding in Queensland On news

[WestCoastGal]

Heard on our evening news that there is extensive flooding going on in Queensland from Cyclone Oswald. I know the Brisbane area was mentioned and am not that familiar with eastern Australia to know about other areas mentioned. Is this basically the same areas that had horrible flooding only a year ago? My thoughts immediately turned toward Peachy who I haven't noticed on the forum in a while.

How's everyone doing?

[Tropicgardener]

Peachy is in Ipswich (west of Brisbane) and she was affected last time, not sure if she was affected this time or not but the expected flood peak was much lower than first anticipated........probably 30 to 40 houses were apparently affected.

The biggest problem was Bundaberg (400km up the coast from Brisbane) which had around 400mm of rain in their catchment.....they have just suffered their biggest ever flood. Whole houses were washed away by floodwaters rageing at up to 70km/h. It is a terrible situation there with major damage to infrastructure and thousands of people left homeless.

All up we had about 1200mm (almost 4ft) in 3 days combined with cyclonic winds up to 120km/h.....The tropical monsoon just seemed to sit on us and not move......there was some flooding of low lying houses down by the Boyne River.

Rockhampton (100km north of here) is next in the firing line with floodwaters due to peak tonight although it will be lower than their devastating floods in 2011.

[Dave-Vero]

Palm Beach County, Florida suffered something similar this past summer. A huge but not very intense tropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico had a very long, very wet band that sat on the Florida Atlantic coast, leaving vast quantities of rain and no doubt affecting lots of palm nurseries.

Science magazine has what looks like a good story on Australia's noxious summer.