Hi Res Brisbane Flood Map.

[Tandum]

There is a Hi Res Flood Map (http://www.nearmap.com/?ll=-27.502181,153.031998&z=12&t=k&nmd=20110113&source=embed) on line, shot from a plane with a 2cm resolution last Thursday, instead of 10cm as seen in google maps. If you search for Victoria Street Fairfield, that's where I went Saturday afternoon after work when the cheese and kisses saw our best mans wife breaking down on TV, after being allowed back to their house for the first time.

The whole area is a muddy disaster and stinks. My heart goes out to anyone effected.

He tells me they wouldn't sell them flood insurance and the Goverment assistance is means tested to a combined max income of $900 gross/week or about $47K/year. His house alone has about $50K damage but they got all major appliances, bedding and furniture out beforehand.

[Matt Wastell]

Sobering map - thoughts are will all!

[hotspur]

That really shows the areas affected well Robin.So difficult to imagine such a huge loss,that your friends have.

The government income assistance package you mention,looks like just another headache,We have no income due to the rain washing the Blackbutt Range away-I work at a sawmill-the logs cannot be bought in and the sawn timber taken away,I also have a tourist business on our property,the buses from Brisbane cannot get to the property.

So we rang the centre link,only to be told our income does meet,their requirements,and we are not getting any assistance,The Blackbutt Range will take up to two to three months to repair.

The owner of the sawmill is flying in tomorrow to help with some paper work for the workers,Centre link has told us-that if anyone earns less than 50,000 we will not get the assistance.

Really a great worry at the moment.

Chris

[Liz]

Geeze, thats terrible re means test of a combined $50.000!! Even a combined income of $100.000 doesnt mean you are rich. :help:

The average person wont get a nickle, is that true?? Wow.

Worked with a woman the other night who went throught the 74 floods and lost everything ..... but didnt get a cent from the Premiers fund, and they were not rich. They were homeless for months. She said the only people who helped them then were the Salvos!!

Might donate some $$ there methinks. :question:

[hotspur]

Yes, Liz-because our income is below a certain amount,we have been told we will not get any assistance.I was on the phone for over two hours on Friday,and there is very little likely hood of these centre link payments.

They told me to go on 'Job start',close my business,and not do my sawmill job,but look for full time employment,even if I have to drive to Brisbane and back evryday (2 hours each way).But then I told them again the Blackbutt Range is closed so not even that was possible,still no progress.

Really,all these donations and help packages are just window dressing to make evryone feel good.

On top of this the water going through the shed wrecked my chain-saw,the thing I need most in my work,and insurance will cover it.

Certainly,A lot of people will be going backwards.

Might be some cheap telescopes on the classifieds soon:shrug:
I have already started selling my reference books.

C

[Liz]

that is absolutely terrible Chris :sadeyes:

[RickS]

Sorry to hear that, Robin & Chris. We were fine apart from the minor inconvenience of a few days without power, but houses at the low end of our street (St Lucia) suffered badly.

Cheers,
Rick.

[Jules76]

I saw this on the news last night. Fantastic map which really shows just how much devastation the floods caused.

A bit disappointed it doesn't go as far as my area (Durack, Inala, Doolandella) as I'm interested in how far it went. We didn't really get anything were we are, but I heard and saw some pics of the motorway being cut off and the surrounding area being flooded around the Blunder Road exit. Apparently the Bunnings, Wow Sight and Sound etc complex was completely surrounded with water and I dare say Harvey Norman would of been the same. Not surprising since it's all built on wetlands and all it takes is a bit of heavy rain to build up. :rolleyes:

Would of been interesting to see what happened around Willawong and Pallara as well since it follows the Oxley Creek/Blunder Creek and is listed as a flood zone by the BCC since it is a natural floodplain. And to think new housing estates are going out that way it's almost a recipe for a future disaster. :(

Let's just hope that we learn more lessons from this disaster and put them into practice for the future.

[AstralTraveller]

Robin, thans for posting that. It's very informative and I've passed the link to friends. It's shocking to see street after street under water. What strikes me though about the flooding is how much of the over-bank flow is inundating parks, sports fields and golf-courses rather than homes (though there is plenty of that too). This suggests to me that flood mitigation has been included in the town planning decisions, even if they somewhat underestimated the possible extent of flooding. I wonder what measures they'll take in the wake of this?
Cheers,
David

[Tandum]

It's not a bad map but looking at the mud line on some rooves, it wasn't shot at the hight of the flood and if you follow the river to the mouth you can see what colour it's supposed to be. I found if you click on the terrain button you'll see what images were overlayed. A lot of the map is dated September. I guess they had to shoot between the clouds as well. Even they are imaging through sucker holes :)

I believe the mayor is pushing for an enquiry but the premier is sidestepping that issue at the moment.

[Edit]
Looks like they have added data from the 14th. Change the date at the top on the map when zoomed out.