75% of Queensland is now considered a disaster zone.
My home-town is now a ghost-town: the entire CBD is empty, eerie. The silence is broken by rescue- & news-helicopters, emergency sirens & the screaming of alarms.
The whole of the centre of Brisbane is shut down, the river broke its banks yesterday and has since completely swallowed many streets of our surrounding suburbs and areas, cutting off people and destroying houses.
14 people are dead so far, 70 are missing. Entire streets are under 3m of water.
The rural ares of South-East Queensland has been completely devastated: Toowoomba, the Lockyear Valley, Grantham and surrounding towns have borne the brunt of this catastrophe. The flash flooding & "walls of water" that have hit these communities have wiped out people's live's to an incomprehensible extent.
My family & I are fortunately not being too badly affected by this, but we are very scared as our whole live's seem to have been shut down and there is so little we can do to help others in the flood crisis.
I feel that in the past fortnight I've been in a perpetual state of shock: even whilst we're essentially trapped at home we are painfully aware of the repercussion of these floods will be felt for years to come.
My home-town is now a ghost-town: the entire CBD is empty, eerie. The silence is broken by rescue- & news-helicopters, emergency sirens & the screaming of alarms.
The whole of the centre of Brisbane is shut down, the river broke its banks yesterday and has since completely swallowed many streets of our surrounding suburbs and areas, cutting off people and destroying houses.
14 people are dead so far, 70 are missing. Entire streets are under 3m of water.
The rural ares of South-East Queensland has been completely devastated: Toowoomba, the Lockyear Valley, Grantham and surrounding towns have borne the brunt of this catastrophe. The flash flooding & "walls of water" that have hit these communities have wiped out people's live's to an incomprehensible extent.
My family & I are fortunately not being too badly affected by this, but we are very scared as our whole live's seem to have been shut down and there is so little we can do to help others in the flood crisis.
I feel that in the past fortnight I've been in a perpetual state of shock: even whilst we're essentially trapped at home we are painfully aware of the repercussion of these floods will be felt for years to come.
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