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Extremely heavy rainfall
- Published_at:2013-01-26
- Category:Autos & Vehicles
- Channel:olaylarful
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- description: A mini-tornado has hit a Queensland coastal town as the state is battered by severe weather and flooding caused by the remnants of cyclone Oswald. Premier Campbell Newman said on Saturday the mini-tornado occurred around 1pm Brisbane time and caused heavy damage in Bargara, east of Bundaberg. ''Unroofing of various buildings around that town, power lines down and potentially an incident where a tree has gone down on a motor vehicle with, I believe two occupants,'' Mr Newman told reporters in Brisbane. "We have declared a disaster in that area." Emergency services confirmed the mini-twister had cut a ''swathe of damage'' and officials were waiting for word on the condition of the male and female in the car. Emergency flood alerts have been issued across Queensland with people in some areas told to get to higher ground. Among them were residents of Gladstone, a town of about 30,000 people, who were warned by authorities that thousands of homes could be flooded as the Boyne River swelled to a one-in-100-year level. The Local Disaster Management Group at Gladstone advised flood levels along the Boyne River would exceed one-in-100 flood levels on the morning high tide at 8.45am (NZT 10.45am) and evening high tide at 9pm (NZT 11pm). Residents had been door knocked by SES teams who advised them to leave their homes and seek higher ground. Meanwhile, 500km south in Brisbane, people were on standby for the city's worst flooding since 2011. Extremely heavy rainfall, storm tides and Wivanhoe Dam releases have put low-lying areas at risk of flooding and this morning Lord Mayor Graham Quirk announced three new temporary sandbag depots; two in Sandgate and one in Lota, on Brisbane's bayside. These were in addition to the permanent depots in Newmarket, Balmoral, Darra and Virginia. The Bureau of Meteorology had issued a severe weather warning for the area this weekend with damaging winds, heavy rainfall, abnormally high tides and dangerous surf conditions. It said tides were expected to be almost a metre higher than those listed on tide charts. "This is about being alert, but I urge residents to not be alarmed," Quirk said. "We will continue to monitor the situation closely over the weekend and I want people to still go out and have a good day on Australia Day, they simply need to be prepared 'just in case'." The Saturday morning storm tides were also expected to put up to 1600 homes in danger of being inundated in the coastal Moreton Bay region, north of Brisbane. Moreton Bay Regional Council Mayor Allan Sutherland said on Friday the council and SES were door-knocking homes in some of the areas at greatest risk.
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