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- Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 09:32:07 -0000
Dumping rain wreaks havoc on Sunshine Coast
March 23, 2012 - 9:00AM
Monthly rainfall in three hours
Weatherzone says it was "very difficult to predict" a flash rain storm which
dumped Maroochydore's entire monthly rainfall in three hours.
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The Sunshine Coast is mopping up today after a one-in-100-year deluge of rain
caused flash flooding, inundating homes and wreaking havoc on the region's
roads.
Maroochydore, Mooloolaba and Caloundra received more than their entire average
March rainfall in a matter of hours, with nearly 400 millimetres falling in
some areas.
At the height of the rainfall, more than 120mm fell in just one hour near
Kawana, which the weather bureau said was of an extremely rare intensity,
equivalent to a one-in-a-100-year event.
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Flooding along Brisbane Road, Mooloolaba last night. Photo: Warren
Lynam/Sunshine Coast Daily
By the time the rain stopped, more than 200 homes had been flooded and 80 roads
had been closed.
The SES received 616 calls for help during the evening, mostly related to
flooding and requests for sandbags, with 250 calls coming from Maroochydore,
141 from Kawana and 115 from Calounda.
Kawana Waters, between Maroochydore and Caloundra, recorded 384mm from 9am
yesterday, while Bundilla, near Mooloolaba recorded 359mm.
Flooding outside Alexandra Headland shops on the Sunshine Coast. Photo: Cade
Mooney/Sunshine Coast Daily
Residents said the rain fell hard and fast and came almost without warning.
Motorists abandoned their cars on the side of the road as main thoroughfares
became too dangerous to travel on.
Police were forced to close one of the main Sunshine Coast arterial roads, the
Nicklin Way for a short period, stranding commuters.
Locals row through a Sunshine Coast car park. Photo: Sunshine Coast Daily
?It looked like a river, like something that you see in a disaster movie,??
Maroochydore?s Miranda Sellers said.
??One moment it was fine, the next there was just water everywhere.?
A Department of Community Safety spokeswoman said firefighters were called to
Warana to assist drivers concerned about flood waters, but no rescues were
necessary.
About 13 staff and children were evacuated from a Mooloolaba childcare centre
by swift water rescue teams after the bottom floor of the centre was inundated.
Residents in parts of Mooloolaba were advised to evacuate as the waters rose
along Ocean View Avenue.
No one was injured because of the flooding and by 10pm, the rain had all but
moved on.
Forecaster Matthew Bass of the Bureau of Meteorology said a low pressure system
which formed off theSunshine Coast was to blame for the rain.
?Basically that spawned one very severe thunderstorm which was centred on
Maroochydore, Caloundra and Mooloolaba,? he said.
?The biggest problem was it was very slow moving, so there was a heavy rain
fall over a long period of time.?
Mr Bass said the Sunshine Coast?s average rainfall for March was 141mm, with
the local airport gauge recording 175mm yesterday, according to the Bureau of
Meteorology.
?So they exceeded that by more than 30mm in just a matter of hours,? he said.
Mr Bass said the weather bureau issued a severe weather warning for much of
southeast Queensland, including the Sunshine Coast, yesterday.
?We knew there would be a low pressure system right on the coast there and we
knew there would be some particularly heavy falls, but picking the point of
where and when the most severe weather would form was tricky,? he said.
However Mr Bass said this morning there was good news for rain-weary southeast
Queenslanders, with a drier change moving through.
?We?ve cancelled the severe weather warning,?? he said. ??The trough which has
caused all the issues is moving off to the east and out to the sea.
?There is just some light patchy stuff left and that will ease during the day
as well.?
The rainfall centred along the coast, with Sunshine Coast hinterland towns
receiving only 60mm.
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