The dams are spilling, the ground is sodden and more is rain on the way for parts of Queensland, so is it time to fear another major flood event?
The dams are spilling, the ground is sodden, and more is rain on the way for parts of Queensland, so is it time to fear another major flood event?
"We can learn from the past, and it is almost an advantage that the 2022 floods were not that far away," she says."You know, clean our drains out, clean our gutters, get your battery-operated radio ready.Seqwater says even though the dams are spilling, Wivenhoe Dam, for example, only opened one gate for flood releases on Tuesday."In all seriousness, the catchment is quite sodden at the moment, so our next steps will depend on the rain and the amount that falls.
He says the south-east is on track for the wettest December since 2010, when 479mm of rain fell in a month.Mr Hanniffy explains the historic 2011 flood, which claimed the lives of 36 people, came after a succession of heavy rain events, so the ground never had a chance to dry out.
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