News & Events QLD Floods

[Smoooothy]

Bundaberg from space

 

[RU_]

A park/paddock at the back of our estate, went under. A good gauge was a fixed table with a roof over the top, where the water was up to the roof. I can't comment on the 2 hours but this was a raging river one night and back to being a park with no water at all the next morning. This park was filled several hundreds metres up the road from a stormwater drain. Amazing how much work a stormwater drain can do when there is no rain to fill it back up.

I can see a 2 metre fall quickly in a river if nothing more is coming into it, and 2 metres of rising river water doesn't equate to 2 metres when it hits the streeths. I am shocked at how fast things changed around here as though nothing happened.

Heres a photo I took that was in our suburb..

That was at 9am, at 7pm it was worse then that and by 9pm the road was clear and police were letting people through. 2 hours?! That water is also 2 metres deep in the middle.

 

[Manila_Playa87]

Come back with that statement when you realise that premiums have increased 300% since 2012.....

LoL Move to Mt Isa then or even better down south. Serves them right for living in the tropics yet building infrastructure designed on the majority of mainstream western countries located outside of the tropics. Brisbane may be in the same country as temperate Melbourne but the the setting and climate is so different considering the size of this country

 

[checkraiseulite]

Come back with that statement when you realise that premiums have increased 300% since 2012.....

what's the alternative? use your own money to rebuild? or freeroll the people that do have insurance and hope to be bailed out by the government?

no real sympathy for people living in known flood prone areas with no insurance.

 

[stmookeyj]

what's the alternative? use your own money to rebuild? or freeroll the people that do have insurance and hope to be bailed out by the government?

no real sympathy for people living in known flood prone areas with no insurance.

We do, even though our town was affected 2 years ago first the bulk of us still had to pay the flood levy to help rebuild, and I'm sure we'll have to again when this is announced to help Bundaberg in particular (or rebuild the several local roads damaged or destroyed in the Friday Storms). Plus this Government will give us jack shizen trying to save dollars from the previous Government's debt (probable line they'll use). Those that live in those areas are also likely to be in the low income range, given the southern fly in fly out mining troika live in the mainly non affected areas to drive up rental and home prices beyond what many can afford.

Plus based on that logic should we have any sympathy then for anyone who chooses to live in areas likely to be affected by bushfires almost every year?

LoL Move to Mt Isa then or even better down south. Serves them right for living in the tropics yet building infrastructure designed on the majority of mainstream western countries located outside of the tropics. Brisbane may be in the same country as temperate Melbourne but the the setting and climate is so different considering the size of this country

If you have any idea about climate and geography the areas most affected are nowhere near the tropics, at least 800km away from Cairns at the very least. And insurance policies would be more expensive in the Isa given they could afford to pay that market rate (raping the miners dry, like they do in Perth).


Honestly, if people in Bundaberg (who are now only just recovering from a 1 in 100 year flood) saw this they'd treat you with as much respect as Anthony Mundine. I know I do!

 

[checkraiseulite]

We do, even though our town was affected 2 years ago first the bulk of us still had to pay the flood levy to help rebuild, and I'm sure we'll have to again when this is announced to help Bundaberg in particular (or rebuild the several local roads damaged or destroyed in the Friday Storms). Plus this Government will give us jack shizen trying to save dollars from the previous Government's debt (probable line they'll use). Those that live in those areas are also likely to be in the low income range, given the southern fly in fly out mining troika live in the mainly non affected areas to drive up rental and home prices beyond what many can afford.

Plus based on that logic should we have any sympathy then for anyone who chooses to live in areas likely to be affected by bushfires almost every year?

Floody levy I can sympathise with I guess if it's used to help repair/rebuild infrastructure and community buildings (things like schools, roads, libraries, sports facilities, hospitals etc). Disagree with government money being raised only to be given to people to repair their private property which they should have insured.

My position re: bushfires is identical. I'm fairly sure I posted here at the time something very similar about uninsured people not deserving money when they knowingly live in areas particularly susceptible to bushfires.

Nothing wrong with a bit of personal responsibility for your lifestyle choices imo.