Floods waters are threatening the Queensland capital of Brisbane as the state continues to suffer from weeks of heavy tropical storms.
There are already eight people confirmed dead, half of them children, and 72 are still confirmed as missing.
Eight thousand Brisbane properties are at risk of being engulfed by the flood waters according to Brisbane city council. The threat is so serious that two riverside restaurants in Brisbane’s CBD have evacuated their businesses in preparation for rising flood waters.
Heavy rains and flash flooding savaged Toowoomba yesterday, with four people confirmed dead and dozens more missing. "This is without doubt our darkest hour in the past fortnight." Said Queensland Premier Anna Bligh.
What has been described by some as an inland tsunami took everyone totally by surprise. One eyewitness said people stood in stunned silence in Toowoomba city centre.
"It was kind of like everyone had just stopped ... standing in the middle of the road looking around," she said. "There were cars upside down, washed away, roads caved in... just crazy scenes."
Parts of the Sunshine Coast, one of Queensland’s main tourist regions, are also being threatened by rising river levels. A flood warning for the area has been reissued and a number of roads have been closed.
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