More than 700 roads cut or affected by floods with intense rainfall set to continue in region between Caboolture and Gladstone
The region had downpours of 260mm in the past 48 hours, Lockyer Valley mayor, Tanya Milligan, said on Friday afternoon.
“It feels really volatile,” she said. “The fact is, that none of us have a crystal ball to give precise locations and how much rainfall, we are actually going to get. But if we were to get a storm cell and have a large velocity, in a small amount of time, to fall on a particular areas, we will be in a whole heap of pain. We are absolutely saturated, this catchment.”
South East Queensland UHF Emergency Service Team founder, Shane Barnes, said he had been shocked by the intensity of the weather.
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