whats shit me the most about this weather event is the media blowing everything out of proportion for the south east qld area, we went through massive floods in 2011 and 2013 in the lockyer valley, and as everyone knows what happened in grantham.
yes its one thing to be prepared be ready and know what to do, but even our local council started scaring the shit out of residents by opening up the disaster center, getting in a state government fast water rescue boat, and telling people to sand bag and be ready to move out.....
we get flooded from 2 big creek systems the lockyer and laidley creek systems, both systems need around 600mm before they become any concern 2013 was 1300mm in mount castle the head of the laidley creek, and in 2011 toowoomba had that massive storm, i wish the authorities would report more factual instead of how they are.
the people in and around caboulture kilcoy and further up north could have used the resources wasted sitting idol in our area,
scare mongering will cost lives as people will become complacent when told its going to be huge and devestating and it turns out to be a total of 55mm, the media themselves need to be factual about reporting in these situations
