Some Of These Areas Were Virtually Swept Off The Planet!

A landscape devastated by the torrent of water that flowed from Toowomba into the Lockyer Valley. Picture: John Grainger

(http://www.theaustralian.com.au/)



Warwick is almost isolated. Then this:

A strict 60kmh speed limit remains in place from Withcott to Helidon and the Warrego Highway remains cut at Gatton.

The Warrego Highway between Oakey and Dalby is also closed to all vehicles except emergency service vehicles.

Queensland is bigger than Texas and the Warrego Highway is the largest of only about four "highways" that penetrate the interior from the coast (some of these roads weren't in the best of shape even before the flooding). Cutting the Warrego Highway virtually isolates hundreds of thousands people scattered over an area larger than New Mexico. And who knows for how long?

Queensland has big problems....