The Floods
You’ve probably seen the floods on the news by now.
So far we are ok here in Algester, but the flooding is beginning to creep closer to us as the Brisbane river gets closer to bursting its banks.
The Wivenhoe Dam was built in the aftermath of a huge flood in 1974 as Brisbane’s defense against another major flood. Its currently at 173% full. 100% is the normal ideal capacity for drinking water, it has a 100% extra space for overflow, so at 200% it will start to overflow and then we are in trouble. To give you an idea of how fast its filling it was 140% full 48 hours ago.
A few blokes here at work have gone home early (its 10am at the moment) after hearing that there houses under water. The roads are being closed around us and it doesn’t look like we’ll be seeing the end of it for quite a while.
I’ll be updating here and via Twitter and Facebook to let you know how we are doing. Our house itself I think should be fine, its reasonably high up. It maybe a day or two before this suburb is hit with the worst of it though.
