Another Day - Another Deluge:

It would be nice to be talking about food and coffee under the sun - instead...
The Brisbane River is 6.41 metres and rising at Colleges Crossing. Mt Crosby Road and the bridge across the river are still closed.
For those detouring around the Mt Crosby weir - the river height has exceeded 9m - and the river is boiling and bubbling. The road needs grading to iron out the hundreds of potholes.
In Ipswich the Bremer hit 9m and the clean up is underway.
To see the river height tracking at Colleges Crossing - just click on the heading of this post.

Floodgates open - again!

As Colleges Crossing park suffers until metres of water - and the Brisbane River flowing about 2 metres over the (inadequate)bridge,there's more water on the way.
All five gates at Wivenhoe dam are to be opened overnight, adding a massive amount of water to the flooding on this part of the river.
The water release is expected to continue until Thursday.
The flooding has closed the cafe for a week - and it's unlikely to open before the weekend - if we are lucky.
An added problem is the disastrous state of the alternate route to Mt Crosby Road. All traffic is being diverted over the Mt Crosby Weir (single-lane) and across a section of unsealed road - which wasn't designed for the traffic capacity and which is pockmarked with potholes.
Kholo Crossing is suffering as well with broken bitumen and flooding.
The Bremer River in Ipswich is also hitting flood heights.
Such is life.

Christmas Monday

Cafe is still closed - hughie just keeps sending it down. Mt Crosby road is still closed over Colleges Crossing, and the barricades are still up.
The river level at the Mt Crosby weir is 8.7 metres, and the Brisbane River at Colleges is 5.51 metres. Low tide is at 11.25am.
The Bremer River at Ipswich is 8m.
The records just keep being broken.
Everyone will start suffering from cabin fever shortly.