Toowombas flashflooding

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Toowombas flashflooding

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Hope any members out that way are ok? i just saw on the news cars been swept down main streets like pinpon balls, one large van was bulldozing trees as it went. Incredible :o
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Yeah i seen it aswell it looked like it turned up before everyone was ready :shake:
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Yeah the news said it was like a tidal wave and in esk the rivers rose 3m in 10 mins :/
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At least two dead, hundreds of cars written off, businesses and home destroyed. Toowoomba is the city on top of the hill this is not supposed to happen.
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