Somewhere beyond the police tape and exposed white roofs of neighbours’ cars, a vast and muck-filled lake, once a Brisbane street, is trying to swallow Pat’s family home.
A man carries his belongings as people evacuate homes inundated by floodwater at Goodna in Brisbane’s west.More than half a metre of rain has fallen on Brisbane since Friday. There have been no breaks, only variations of intensity. The Bureau of Meteorology’s rain radar has speckled across the entire south-east corner for three full days and two nights.The death toll is six. Some people were swept to their deaths from ordinary inner-suburban streets at Indooroopilly and Stones Corner.
“Let me be very clear about this, this is like an unpredictable cyclone, and it is levels that we have never expected or that could ever have been forecast,” she said.Boats unmoored by roiling water, and a 40-metre section of concrete pier, crashed down the Brisbane River, which was spilling its banks even before the arrival of dam releases further afield.
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