Toowoomba

11th January

We’ve extended our stay in Victor Harbor, we have a few things to do over the next few weeks and at this stage we are quite happy to use this place as a base, we may have to move when the cherry season finishes or McLaren Vale runs out of wine.
Currently watching the flood devastation in Toowoomba and Lockyer Valleys it is quite unbelievable, we have friends and relatives in both Toowoomba and Lockyer areas but thank God they are all safe. A reles young grand daughter works part time in a Toowoomba coffee lounge and apparently had to literally run for her life when the flood water rushed in inundating the place. It is hard to imagine an 8metre wall of water raging through a town 700 odd metres above sea level and of course it is still raining with plenty more to come.
Brisbane is next, water run off into the catchments’ area of the protecting Wivenhoe dam will be released into the Brisbane River system resulting in flooding in Brisbanes lower lying areas, let’s hope it is not as severe as the 74 flood but the dam is already at 150% capacity, that is over 50% over design maximum capacity which means it eventually spills naturally apart from controlled discharge. Not good.

It’s actually drizzling with rain here today.