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Parts of Yeronga were inundated during Brisbane's 2011 floods. [23] [24]The major flood events of the Brisbane River in 1887, 1890, 1893, 1907 and 1931 [25] are not recorded as causing significant damage to Yeronga (the flood-prone areas of which were not extensively developed at those times), but the 1974 and 2011 floods caused extensive damage to many of the properties adjacent to the river ...
The 2022 eastern Australia floods were one of the nation's worst recorded flood disasters with a series of floods that occurred from late February to early May in South East Queensland, the Wide Bay–Burnett and parts of coastal New South Wales. Brisbane suffered major flooding, along with the cities of Maryborough, Gympie, the Sunshine Coast ...
[2] [3] The landslides in Corinda and surrounding suburbs involved "thousands of tonnes" of soil, with a section of Cliveden Avenue eventually being permanently closed to vehicular traffic. [3] Geoscience Australia records that the landslip was over a distance of 1.6 kilometres (0.99 mi), with "ten houses were evacuated and 12 others threatened.
Queensland authorities said major flooding was underway in some suburbs of Cairns, a tourist hub of around 170,000 people located around 1,700 km (1,060 miles) north of state capital Brisbane.
Some of the Brisbane suburbs worst affected by the floods were St Lucia, West End, Rocklea and Graceville. [62] The floods damaged some of Brisbane's icons. The Brisbane Riverwalk, a floating walkway over the Brisbane River linking the inner city neighbourhoods of Fortitude Valley and New Farm , broke up, with a section forming a 300-metre (980 ...
The state was not evacuated because of the floods. New South Wales State Emergency Service (SES) had responded to over 12,000 requests for help and 1000 direct flood rescues since 18 March during the storm, with the coastal area between the Mid North Coast and Greater Sydney being the most affected by the storm, where the SES had given flood evacuation warnings in many areas of these regions.
Significant flooding was unfolding in the New Orleans area, forecasters warned. The National Weather Service declared a flash flood emergency on Wednesday night for the I-10 corridor in the New ...
Floodwaters tore out a fence, undermined a deck and caked roads with mud, mobile home park residents said.