Coomera River Floods

[the gecko]

Did anybody see the piece Seven news did on coomera on Tuesday nite?

Nearly every older style pontoon had broke its moorings and washed up a mile down the river. I mean every single pontoon on the whole river.....the only ones that survived were the heavy concrete pylon style.

A cruiser broke its moorings and got stuck under the M1 bridge and smashed to pieces.

The canals in Hope Island resort are so thick with debris that the ducks couldnt swim in in it. They were strugglig to fly out of it. You could literally walk on water there.

Several houseboats went floating out to the Broadwater.

Worst of all, a shipping container full of garden tools, went floating down the river, and smashed into all the boats around Riviera at Hope Island. They say the insurance companies are very keen to find out who owned the container..... (yeah I bet they are).

Longshift, would you know anything about a container full of garden tools, ha ha.....Im sure Ive seen that container somewhere up your way.

I reckon the river will take about 6-8 weeks to recover. This would be the biggest flood in Coomera in 20 years. Looks like the catchment areas upstream just got a bucketing.

cheers
Andrew

[frankgrimes]

Hey Andrew,

Garry(Spaniard_King) posted some footage he received(think they used the footage on the news):

http://www.ausfish.com.au/vforum/sho...d.php?t=160797

Pretty surreal seeing all those unmanned vessels etc going past!

Mick

[sharkymark2]

Wow think of all the new MJ fishing spots there will be now and may be a a new artifical reef or two as well .

[samsnap]

Any Members involved? Hope Not - It's also sad to see all the livestock that lost their lives - a lot of very expensive Horses were lost or had to be destroyed and owers are distraught - Mother Nature sure is cranky lately. Sammy xxx

[tailorboi99]

No, I didn't see the news on channel Seven, but I've seen other footage on channel Nine. Unfortunately a few people have also lost their lives (in the Brisbane area), let's just hope the future is good.

Thanks Tom

[Scalem]

Poor owners of all those vessels, they would be looking everywhere for them, and when they do, when there is video evidence of them demolishing pontoons.... what a nightmare to unravel, with insurances etc.

Hope the river does not suffer a fish kill because of the huge amount of sediment and fresh water. That would also be a disaster.

Scalem

[URAGANGI]

The gecko I've posted a P.M for you

cheers The long shift.

[cobiaman]

we had 2 horses washed away when the creek out the back of our place flooded, but thankfully both were found downstream a few hundred metres

[Fishobloke]

Thats scary, would have been challenging to deal with that!

[cobiaman]

nah not really, we were in sydney for the weekend and they were found before we got back, they had plenty of cuts and scratches though