As you may be aware there are floods in South Eastern Queensland, Northern New South Wales and Victoria (mostly north west). The floods in Queensland are said to be the worst floods experiences since 1974.
The Wivenhoe Dam on the Brisbane River, which was built after 1974 to help prevent future floods, is now at 190% capacity.
Toowoomba, where my parents live experienced what has been described an an inland tsunami, which travelled down the Range and destroyed the town and Helidon and Grantham, and travelled further east toward Brisbane which is now experiencing flooding along the Brisbane River, expected to reach 5.2m above. Ipswich the second largest city is now experiencing flooding at around 7m above.
Before the Toowoomba tsunami there was flooding all around the south eastern queensland region from Rockhampton to the Darling Downs. This was and is caused by excessive amounts of rain. Thousands of mm or rain has fallen in the past 5 weeks.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/abcnews24/ You can watch the news channel ABC24 streamed online, and it's now apparently viewable internationally.
If you want to help through donations you can go here
http://www.qld.gov.au/floodsMy parents are ok, my aunt's and nana's houses were flooded, but they're also ok too. Thankfully.
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