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Major flood warning issued for Logan river near Beaudesert for QLD
ABC NEWS (Australia)
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12/19/2024
Residents of south-east Queensland are being told to remain vigilant after days of heavy rain saw multiple flood alerts issued across the region. Watch and act warnings are in place this morning for parts of Western Downs and South Burnett.
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This system that's triggered so many of these showers and thunderstorms that have lashed
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the southeast is starting to move north.
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We're expecting areas in the north and western parts of the state to be impacted by rainfall
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throughout today, but the concern is that this downpour in the southeast has left a
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significant mark.
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There are now emergency watch and act alerts that have been issued for, as you mentioned,
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the South Burnett and Western Downs region.
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Local councils have said that the main concern is that days of intense rainfall have left
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catchments incredibly saturated and as well, roads have been inundated and cut off.
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If you look online to the Queensland Traffic website, there are dozens of road closures
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in place due to that flash flooding.
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Now, the police have also said that they've issued text message alerts to residents in
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those regions that are impacted.
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They're urging residents to prepare to leave if that water level does continue to rise.
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Of course, there is that major flood level warning that's in place for the Logan River
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at Bow Desert.
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That peak is expected to hit sometime this morning and there is also still a moderate
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flood warning that's in place, that's been in place for days for the Mary River as well.
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Now, as for SES call outs, in the last 24 hours there's been more than 145 call outs
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for assistance.
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A lot of those have been concentrated to the Brisbane and Moreton Bay region and that's
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for issues like tarping as well as sandbagging.
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We've also heard from the South Burnett Region's Mayor, Donita Potter, who says that rain,
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the intensity of the rainfall that we've seen in the last few days, they haven't seen this
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for quite some time.
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There's people there that have got water that they've sort of cut off and they had not seen,
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and we're talking people for over 50 years that haven't seen the water that we've seen
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in this last couple of days.
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Our dams are full, they're all spilling over.
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It's really quite incredible to see.
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This is more water, I think, I would think this is more water than what we've had in
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2011 floods.
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But Ari, we do have some reprieve for residents in the South East.
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Yeah, that's certainly right, Ruby.
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So this southerly that pushed a lot of these thunderstorms and showers here to the South
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East has also pushed away the moist air flow offshore, so that is sort of settling conditions
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here in the South East.
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As you can see here in Brisbane, it has cleared up significantly.
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It looks very different to what it did 24 hours ago.
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We are expecting conditions to get drier as we head into the weekend.
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The main concern now is going to be a tropical low that could potentially develop in the
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Coral Sea from tomorrow.
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While it might not develop into a tropical cyclone, it is threatening to bring a lot
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of rain to communities in the far north, so residents are being told to brace for that.
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Now the forecast for the remainder of December in the South East does look a lot more settled
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and dry.
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However, there is that flood risk that looks likely to return as we head into the new year.
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