If you live in South East Queensland, or in fact any part of Queensland for long enough and you are going to experience quite a lot of rain over a very short period which results in some sort of flood conditions.
The last big flood that hit the area was the Gold Coast Floods of 1974 but local residents certainly had cause to be concerned late last Saturday night when the skies opened up. Parts of the Gold Coast hinterland recorded well over a foot (360mm) of rain.
Officially the record show the rain as falling over a 24 hour period but the vast majority of that rain occured over a 4 to 6 hour period late on Saturday night, the 6th of February 2010. All up the wild weather has been attributed with a damage bill well over $100 million.
The nightly news carried stories of boats and houseboats breaking their moorings and careening down the local rivers collecting everything in their path. Of course these days the locals do a better job of recording the flood conditions the next day on sites like youtube where someone captured this boat being crushed up against the M1 at the Coomera River.
Runaway boats where not just restricted to the Coomera River thought. One local owner also woke up the next morning to find his boat gone. It had broken away from its moorings and lodged itself up on one of the pylons of the M1 as it crosses the Nerang River.
Related blog post and pages:
- First National Gold Coast Awards Nerang First National Sweep the Gold Coast Awards! On Saturday night the First National Real Estate group held their Gala Award night for the Gold Coast Zone Awards with a...
- Gold Coast City Council Below is a list of major sections on the Gold Coast City Council Website plus other external links about the Gold Coast City Council: Gold Coast City Council Website Links...
- Gold Coast Agent Directory If you are looking for a real estate agent on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia we would receommend these local agents. Nerang First National specialise in Residential Real Estate Services...
- Gold Coast Real Estate Investment Residential real estate investment has been the investment vehicle of choice for many Australians that just don’t trust the share market’s rollercoaster effect when they can have the security of...
- Gold Coast Visitor Information For all those people visiting this site from other parts of Australia and around the World we have gathered Gold Coast Visitor information that may assist you to get more...
