Woah, that’s intense.

I’m still ok, atm. I spent yesterday watching Facebook as many of my friends and family had to evacuate, were flooded or got cut off. The suburb where I grew up is completely underwater. It’s unbelievable.

The suburb where I live is set to flood on Thursday. The ’74 floods stopped about 2 blocks from here. These floods are meant to be worse. I live in a 3rd story apartment so all our stuff should be fine but I am not happy about the prospect to being stuck in here so we are watching the news and may get out anyway.

Life is weird. These is an SES HQ at the bottom of our street and we may go down to help them fill sandbags once they need more volunteers. It is very busy there. They city is basically shut down. We are supposed to stay off the roads, off the phones, and conserve drinking water.

It’s very sad. I like Brisbane and now it’s all going underwater. I hope everyone is ok.

I am fortunate to live in a suburb that won’t be affected by the flooding Brisbane River. I do work in the CBD – so, we were sent home yesterday, and told not to come into work today.

The next few days will be very tragic for so many people in Brisbane. I have some friends who have had to leave their houses / units. My mother works in one of the major hospitals here in Brisbane, and they are working with very few staff, as so many workers are either cut off or flooded.

It is all very sad as we all wait for the flooding to continue, and it has been a real shock for people in Brisbane when we heard of and began to see the pics and hear the stories about the disasters in Toowoomba and the Lockyer Valley, with the destruction and tragic loss of life there.

The email posted by AVB just shows how terrifying and how unexpected it has been, and makes it all the more real when it is affecting someone we know. It will be so important for the community to help those affected – especially, as so many lose so much. Since yesterday, I have either been contacted by relatives / friends interstate or have checked with friends here in Brisbane to make sure that they are okay.

I hope that all F2B users and guests affected by the flooding in SE QLD and by other rain and flooding throughout Australia will be safe over the next few days, and over the next few weeks.

Jason

We have not been directly affected by floods here. There were a couple of road closures around us, which had us ‘flooded in’ for a while, but our house is on high ground so we didn’t get any water on our land. My youngest sister has been evacuated from her house in Rockhampton and hasn’t been able to go home yet, no idea when she will be allowed back, or what she’s lost to the floods.

My eldest daughter lives in New Farm but is expected to be okay as she’s on high ground. My son is at Morningside, not far from the river. So far his place is expected to remain dry. My youngest daughter lives near the Kedron Brook, but is also on high ground. Hopefully, they will all come through it without too many problems.

Thanks to everyone here for your prayers and kind thoughts. For a lot of us who are here, and relatively unscathed, we also can only ask “What can we do?”

Donate, Pray, and if possible, volunteer to assist others. That’s about all that can be done.

It is good to hear how people are helping others – filling sandbags / helping to move things from houses – even people whom they don’t know – complete strangers. On ABC News, a woman in Paddington, took in a Vietnamese couple and their two children – they had only been in Australia about 6 months.

I am glad to hear that you are safe too Mr Summit.

It is very surreal up here in Brisbane – watching the footage on TV over the last few days – and then waking up this morning to see and hear how Brisbane survived 4.2 meter floods, and not the 5.2 meters predicted. It is so distressing seeing all the flood damage to other peoples homes and business, and seeing the hopeless of their situation. And even if you are ok – you are impacted because you know someone who has lost so much….

And then the death toll in the Lockyer Valley is steadily increasing as well.

And the clean up has yet to begin – and that is a huge task and will be going on for a long time for so many people….

yes it is wonderful to see the beautiful qualities of the Aussie spirit of fairness and equality come forth…….along with the capacity to face hardship in the face…….and to move on.