Every Queenslander has a flood story. Some more dramatic than others. Some more disastrous than others.
We have had a fairly anxious week as we kept an eye on the creek behind our home but there was never really reason to worry. Especially when compared to the heartbreaking, gut-wrenching images and video clips of the floods in the suburbs of Brisbane and other parts of Queensland.
The Sunshine State of Australia, to compare, is ”more than seven times the size of the United Kingdom, more than four and half time the size of Japan, around six and half times the size of New Zealand, more than five times the size of Texas.” Absolutely mind-blowing to think seventy five percent of the state had been affected by the devastating floods.
But while there was much destruction wrought by overflowing dams and rivers, what was even more impressive was the kindness and generosity that welled and surged in response to the calamity. Every Queenslander has a flood story, but they all don’t end in tragedy.
[At Queen Street Mall before the week of floods in Brisbane. Interesting to compare, before and after photos of Queensland floods, January 2011]
