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Some International media reports about these catastrophic floods in Rockhampton mentioned that crocodiles might be washed into peoples homes. Some Australian media reports have mentioned that there is an influx of deadly venomous snakes coming down with the flood waters and these might be washed into homes. The major biting threat to a lot of Rockhampton residents is a tiny little thing called a sandfly, no bigger than a tiny flea. You don't even realise one of these tiny little blood suckers has bitten you until a couple of hours later when you start to itch like crazy, and the...

I mentioned in one of the earlier Posts that the area in Queensland under water was around the combined size of Texas and Oklahoma. Now even bigger, add in New Mexico to that size. All 9 Rivers in the Fitroy River Basin have been in major flood, the first time in recorded history. Now 12 days since those heavy rains started across this wide State, the flood peak has finally reached Rockhampton where I live. It has already been at major levels now for those 12 days and has been gradually creeping up. The devastation from inundation is horrendous and...

While this flood crisis disaster is still happening here in Rockhampton, this Post canvasses the role of engineering for something like this, and also looks at the Fitzroy River Basin in general. The maximum flood peak is yet to be reached here in Rockhampton, and once that reaches us, the inundation will last for fourteen days or more in a city of 75,000 already totally cut off now.

The flood disaster focus in Queensland Australia moves to Rockhampton on the Fitzroy River, where I live. The flood peak is expected to arrive on Tuesday, and, now higher than originally expected by more than one metre, will make this the second worst flood disaster on recorded, the worst being in 1918. In a city of 75,000, so far 4,000 homes have been evacuated with many more to come. What is hard to comprehend is that in this State of Queensland alone, the area under flood waters is equal to the combined area of Texas and Oklahoma. I live on...