Toowoomba Flood 2011.01.10
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- Опубліковано 9 січ 2011
- Amazing footage of East Creek near Chalk Drive / Chalk Lane rising and washing away lots of cars during Flash Flood in Toowoomba on Monday 10 January 2011. This is some of the best footage I have seen of the Flood and was taken from the second floor of our office which backs onto Chalk Lane.
It shows just how fast the creek turned into a torrent and quickly flooded Chalk Drive and Chalk Lane.
I also got some video of where the creek crosses Neil Street and some video of the aftermath and the huge amount of cars damaged and piled on top of one another in the Chalk Drive car park.
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With the incredible exposure that my video is receiving all over the internet and media worldwide I would like to encourage you to donate to the relief appeals.
You can donate to the Queensland Government Appeal at: www.qld.gov.au/floods/donate.html
Or the Churches of Christ Care Queensland Flood Appeal here:
care.cofcqld.com.au/site/docs/...
Please pray for us. There are many people who are suffering through this.
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Thank you for all your expressions of support for us.
Dear Toowoomba. A year ago myself and many other New Zealanders watched as your town was inundated by a flash flood. We were horrified. Some of us including myself donated money to the relief effort. Some of my colleagues came over and helped with the Civil Defence effort.
Six weeks later my hometown of Christchurch was devastated by a magnitude 6.3 earthquake just a few kilometres from the central city. Australian police, RAAF aircraft and hundreds of Aussies came to help us.
THANK YOU.
"Fortunately the rain has stopped" I think the damage is done, love.
I disagree. Had the rain not stopped, the damage would be BIGGER. No ?
lol he wasn't taking the air out of his tires folks, he was locking the hubs on his 4 wheel drive because he was afraid he didn't have traction enough to get out with just normal 2wd.
manual locking hubs do just that, you have to turn the hubs to lock them so you can engage 4wd and get power to the front wheels.
+John Thompson Came here to say this. You can't take the air out of your tires just by taking the valve caps off...which is apparently what the lady thought he was doing. Not many people keep a valve stem tool in their pocket.
+John Thompson if he was locking the hubs like you say why was he letting the air out of his tires
+blitzv10 ....he wasnt letting the air out of his tires.
+- Jeff - but everybody has got a key in their pocket... and your usual car key will just do fine.
+blitzv10 where did you actually SEE air going out of his tires ?
this is why i drive a boat to work
+Dogg9 how do you know that...
of course not because you're poor
Very smart lol 😂
I remember this day, was my day off and I turned on the tv to hear the news about how certain parts had flash flooding coming through... almost couldnt believe it, since Toowoomba is on top of a range and it just seemed very unusual to me at the time.
i wonder if someone woke up with a bunch of free cars in his backyard
hehe why not if you're living in a river :D
Actually theres no river in toowoomba its on top of a mountain.
+Brandon Poirier-Blair Prices all are Half Off
+Brandon Poirier-Blair Omg I was Thinking that xD thnx so much for sayin it :3 I did see a car in our school when i was 7
Brandon Poirier-Blair lol
This video is by far the best footage of how quickly things escalated!!!
10 years today since this video was released.
Can’t believe this was 9 years ago today still get goosebumps thinking about it
I visited this town about 8 years ago--what a wonderful place. This makes me sad. I hope everyone's recovering now.
2:00 Quick someone grab my fishing pole, I found myself a Subie!
Trainer Hj
yup
Looked to me like he was putting his hubs in for the 4WD.
Yeah all that 30 seconds of locking the hubs in
Yeah I was gonna say taking air out takes for ever and it doesn’t look like he slashed his tyres ahaha
HELLO AUNTIE LOU!
YOU'RE FAMOUS! LOOK AT YOUR VIEWS!
"this car might have been saved by being pushed up"
"i dont think you would call that saved, maggie"
lol
This is the most amazing flood video I have seen! That guy was super lucky to get out of there. He really risked it!
It was 3 years ago today.
It's hard to believe so much time has passed already, but we'll never forget that rain.
I’ve driven through this city and I can say that the flooded river is at least 35 feet deep. Imagine how much water there was
He's not taking the air out of his tires, he was locking his hubs. You can't let much air out of your tires when you spend 3 seconds on each wheel.
cut the tire
To think this was 10 years ago today is beyond me!
I remember seeing the 2011 qld floods on the news as a kid I didn’t understand how bad it was until I grew up
the 2022 ones were way worse
Several people died in this event and I am disgusted that the full truth of what happened has never come out - so here it is:
About 3 km upstream from the town centre is a large flood retention basin - located just to the south of the Golf Course. Ironically, this structure is designed to protect the town from flash flooding, by holding back floodwaters and letting them release at an acceptable rate through a set of pipes.
Unfortunately, this structure had a design fault in that the rim of the wall was not fully protected by concrete. Probably nobody ever thought that the wall could be topped.
However, on the day in question, the rainfall was so intense that the wall was topped, and from that moment onward, a 30 metre section started to collapse and erode away. All in all, the erosion cut away about a metre from the top of the wall, so you could imagine that it would have released a torrent of water some 30 metres wide and 1 metre deep.
You can sort of see the effect when watching the video. For quite a while, the water is filling the channel, but not bursting the banks too badly. This is because the outlet pipes in the retention basin would be sized to the downstream channel such that they release water as quickly as possible - but not too quickly to exceed the capacity of the channel. Then, suddenly the water level starts to rise quite rapidly - to what looks to be around 30 metres wide and an extra 1 metre deep - this would be when the wall was over-topped.
I checked out the scene a week after all this had happened and someone had already been in there with a loader 'patching the breach up'. It seemed a bit suspect, like they were trying to hide what had happened.
Anyway, I took a set of photos of the situation and sent them in to the authorities, with a description of what I thought had happened, but nothing was ever said about this.
I'm not saying that if the wall had not collapsed, peoples' lives would have been saved, but they certainly would have had a better chance. In any event, I think that the full truth should always be told where people have lost loved ones.
I note that NOW the flood retention basin DOES have a concrete cap (a footpath) all the way along the rim.
loswaldo777 gj m8
Even though I was up north my roof calapsed
@Jeff Stacy even if true, that's one too many
My heart goes out to the 35 people who died in this flood :'( Much love from Auckland, NZ
Oh my god. 9 years today. That flood was absolutely no good. We were coming back from a old friends house and we were on the Warrego highway and the company with intent launcher was telling mum to get off the road and she wouldn’t listen witch was stupid and then the company with intent launcher phoned my granddad and then he phoned my mum and he said get off the road in a firm voice and we stopped at the last hotel at Helidon and we were with no power and food for 3 days and I nearly died and it was absolutely trumatising and when someone talks about it I feel sooooo trumitised.
Jordan’s Car Reviews that was absolutely terrible.
Amazing video, I can't believe how calm those two sounded!
He's locking the hubs in, not taking air out
This is my hometown and I remember that happening
Same
I was in range ville at the time near the water bird habitat, luckily we didn't get flooded. My grandparents weren't so lucky.
Michael Lyons Oh was your grandparents okay?
+Jack KaiserCapewell yeah, the floor on their bottom floor in their house got ruined though. The office was down there and some of the computers died.
Michael Lyons oh dear, that sucks ass
SImply amazing video! Can't believe the guy with the 4x4 is the only vehicle owner who attempts to gets his car out. Also the scene at the end is almost artistic in its expression of the power of water. Dramatic stuff!
what fantastic footage! scary stuff but thank you so much for posting this its really helped me with my a level case studies on flooding! thank you! and hope your car was okay!
We watched this in school and everybody was like ohhhh and aww and where angry at the man who was saving his car 😂😂
That little bridge took that like a champ. very little debris in the water, logs and stuff. but then again this is in a city and not much forestation around. We had a flood here and tho the flow wasn't as fast as this the rise where significant and there where logs and forest debris being swept with he water so they had to bring excavators up on the low bridges to lift up the debris since the pressure builds up immensely. But we lost a few roads and buildings just because of that.
in some area's during this flood the water rose by 20 feet in a matter of minutes.
Well in most if it makes more sense
Magnus Bekkengen there would’ve the flood water was about 30m deep
William Stokes no most reached about 62 foot
That bridge has been around for ages. It still stands.
For those thinking it was a dam breach or dam related, or climate change related: Australia was experiencing a La Niña weather event, and a large quantity of rain fell in this creek's catchment in a very short period of time.
THANKS FOR POSTING THIS VID IT STOPED MY STEP-DAD MOVING TO AUSTRILA
Rip Jordan rice
i remember the floods cause in from toowoomba
Fair Dinkum Good it was not just toowoomba it was also in the locker valley which is around the toowoomba area
It flooded a little in Bundy too
I live 20 minutes from Toowoomba and our backyard was a pool and the park in town had more water in it than the pool.
I live in Toowoomba but I was a baby when it happened so I didn't see it
I use to live in Dalby which is 1 hour away from toowoomba i was 6 when the floods happened
I do engineering talks for students in Canada/US and show them this for rainfall-runoff. 160mm of rain doesn't sound like a lot until they see your video. Thanks again!
The other thing about this summer was that the ground literally felt sponge like even a few weeks before this happened, i lived Hume,South street way back in toowoomba 2011. So much rain before and this just pushed it over the edge.
Over 5.000.000 views now... Ubelievable video man!
I know this is old but, next day on craigslist "For Sale: Low miles. Slight water damage, left the window open one night."
I find it funny how only one guy went out to move his car lol
That guy, had 4 wheel drive. The only thing that gave him any chance.
HELLO!?
HIIL ExoticboyzTV I find it funny he bothered holding an umbrella while letting the air out his tires like a baller lol.
Seriously though, why wouldn't anyone try to move their cars once they realized what was happening?
3 Years ago. :'( I will never forget this day. It didn't seem real, but I'm proud to say that I helped with the clean up. R.I.P. To all of those people that lost their lives. :'(
Hiisi T you're the loser who can't even spell.
Morgz196 now 7
Wow that was amazing recording. How awful for the people lost their cars
When Mother Nature throws up...
Now, where is that hovervan??
Any time the weather service issues a “flash flood warning,” they need to remind people what that means by showing this video!
rest in peace for every single person who died that day
Miss Anonvexs it was over about two weeks
WeatherStruckGaming I was 3 on that day and I thought somebody made a GIAGANTIC pool In our yard
WeatherStruckGaming sorry I will remove it for you 👍
"Should we move our cars?"
Stands there and does nothing.
Wow
I just love how you're commenting on the horror but loving filming it. Strange human reaction we all have eh? :D
He wasn't airing down he was locking his hubs mate! Haha.
2:00 shit a Subaru Impreza...that sucks big time
Chalk Ln
Toowoomba QLD 4350
Australia
+Shane Earley wasnt all that Impreza to me floating down the river
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wrx no! 2:00
+TPShoots RIP
No its 100% a Subie
+Sam Samm the tail lights speak a thousand words
+TPShoots Scubaru
+Sam Samm m8, thats a subie
I watched this video repeatedly three years ago, then made a Relief contribution. What I'd like to know is, have you made [or would you please make] a follow-up showing the current condition of this area?
Great presence of mind to film this event. I understand the laughter was nervous laughter, you weren't making fun of other people's losses. It's just bizarre watching cars float along in that way.
ok to all the people who think this guy is letting air out of his tyres, first of all LMFAO, secondly, has anyone ever heard of a hub lock? google it, then sit back and laugh at yourselves with me.
You are so awesome for knowing what locking hubs are, you are my hero.
@5:32 they all made it back to another parking lot
Almost a year ago......that was amazing footage!
Great video. Thank you!
Our teacher to,d us to watch this😐
Caitlin Hartley same
Same
i would just run and save my car
you won't survive
+Xmuslim Atheist Rebel Him specifically.
They all had so much time to do so. I don't see how you wouldn't notice the end of the world outside your window unless you where piss drugged asleep.
+charlesl7 my car is 200.000, and I would have moved it as soon as the river get out.... People are so fucking stupid they never learn what happens (I bet this has already happened dozens of times at this spot)
+Bazuzeus.. You can't replace life
Well I was so impressed this man this one man risked being swept away in that merciless torrent to save his vehicle the brilliant touch he also took an umbrella FOFL if that isn't defiance in the face of the odds I don't know what is.Kudoes to you sir whoever you are.
I remember this event. Honestly I have never seen so much water. 2008 there was a bit but nothing compared to how extreme this was. Even 2013, it was close but still not more
should we move our cars?? lol, Aussies are too much
Their cars weren't parked in that spot.
There are some videos out there which genuinely make you scared and others which just give you a fright....
I am very sad to see what has happened in Australia. May God be with those who have lost so terribly and who have suffered so much. I hope every one of you family and friends are well and unharmed. God bless
my thoughts are with you guys through and through
We have some of the worst floods in the world. Always the Australian spirit shines through these tough times. Last year my cousins house was completely wreaked from the Queensland floods :/
This was a terrible disaster that occured however it taught me that it doesn't matter how bad things are, we as a country pulled together as 1 to help. To help rescue those in risky situations, gather together to mourn the loss of those who didn't make it through, to help clean up, rebuild... that was amazing. Those who we lost in this tragic disaster will always be in our hearts, we will move forward and always be there for each other remembering those who have left us.
I'm still amazed how i drive down this road almost every day. It's scary and strange that this happened is my town.
What's unbelievable is that Toowoomba isn't located near any major rivers or oceans, it's 1200 ft above sea level and the water came from no where. Kudos to mother nature.
Thank you
That dude who let the air out of his tires in the 4x4 is smart! Cause if u let are out if tires it makes them dagger which makes them heavier so u have more grip. Art dude!
that was amazing. I am speechless.
I don't want to 'like' this video because of all the destruction and loss. But it is amazing.
This is why I always keep duck inflatable arm bands in my car
I was working up there with some shopfitting for ideal electrical and john r turk after the floods and holy crap looked like a warzone
Hi there is this your footage? I'd love to talk with you about this if possible. Thanks!
my deepest condolences to the people who were affected by this tragedy ..
My office is ~500m from this spot. It had been raining for ~2 weeks beforehand, and the heavy rain came through about 1:30pm, water was up within 15-20 min, and would have been back within the banks of the drain by 3-3:30. The torrent you see here is usually a concrete drain about a metre wide, in the centre of a grassy ditch. The whole catchment upstream from here is either suburbia or the eastern side of Tba CBD. Lots of rooves, road and driveway to create a sudden runoff in a downpour.
WOW this is unbelievable footage!
How long did it take to get to its full depth?
Glad you guys are ok. Cars can be replaced.
Man you got some killer footage.
Sick video!
I remember being so terrified watching this video, because my town was forecasted to flood the next day. very scary time for a lot of queenslanders.
I watched a doco on this the other day and yip you Aussies sure are tuff
He wasn't taking air out of his tires he was locking his hubs in. 👍
I remember this happening! Our backyard turned into a pool.
Yeah I feel so sorry for the owners of those cars that got washed away in that flood I hope your car was safe mate like you said it was parked out the front
Christ...I'm glad at least that one guy saved his car. I wish some others had been around to save theirs.
So sad, so many people, including children died in this flood. It was tragic and captured the hearts of all Australians :( rest in peace to those lost in this horrible act of mother nature
This is really scarry, I can not believe how fast the water rose, I hope all are OK
I saw this happen when I was camping in a motorhome in Switzerland a few years ago. The water rose so fast that only four of us managed to get off the site before the waters had risen too high. What does not show in this video is all the tons of wood and debris which the water carries - it was the debris that did most of the damage.
Not too long ago I was driving down this road and looking at how different it is now. It's awful :'(
My friend was in Queensland at the time on holidays from Ireland. We nearly had to be evacuated back home to Melbourne because of cyclone yasi.
This happened on my birthday! Watching the flood water from my window 😢 worst birthday ever!
I am just amazed that these office workers did not know that a river was being built outside thier office and did not attempt to move thier cars.
you've never driven a Subaru. Very lovable cars. They very quickly become part of the family once you own one.
I love they way they talk!
the QLD floods was a terrible thing. took the lives of my cousin&aunt, Jordan and Donna Rice. r.i.p to them and whoever else lost their lives in the 2011 floods..
the power of nature is truly awe inspiring my thoughts go out to all affected
@missrosetejano Duuh, how much time between the start of the vid where the river was low to where it was verging on the carpark? 1 guy got his 4x4 out.
This is awesome. When can I move to Australia?
I had the exact same colour Ford Festiva as the one at 5:22. Believe me that would of been a fitting end for that car