The inhabitants of the third largest city in Australia, and Queensland state capital, have awakened with relief after the flooding of the Brisbane River tonight is not at its highest level anticipated when the rise of the river joined high tide. Even so the heaviest rains of the decade have left behind a huge trail of destruction.The day began in sunshine, and the Australians early risers could see the sun after many days. But then came the rain. Even so, according to police and meteorologists River has experienced the time of maximum flood. Official sources have reported that the water level was one meter below the 5.5 that forecasters were predicting a figure that would have jeopardized the entire metropolitan area by the floods that have killed at least 12 people and 200,000 homeless in the eastern half of the country.
But while the river flow has reached its highest point, officials say it will take forward and do not rule out re-growth, rising today is far from the floods of 1974, the most devastating in the area. However, this second flood of the river was not as severe as expected does not mean it has had consequences.
The catastrophe has been huge, with nearly 14,500 homes and businesses completely submerged, and another 19,700 partially flooded, while 100,000 homes are without electricity and water supply is intermittent. In the rest of Brisbane, some residents may not return home until two days, others will have to wait months and the most unfortunate may never regretted the governor of the state of Queensland, Anna Bligh.
"Tarade to recover. Three quarters of our state has experienced a high level of destruction in the raging flood and now we face a post-war reconstruction of proportion," said Bligh. Brisbane Mayor Campbell Newman, says that while many areas remain flooded the financial center, the smallest rise in the river last night this has saved some 8,000 properties.
"Now all together we must help people to pull ahead," Newman told Australian television. Rescue teams returned this morning Lockyer valley, where they hope to access remote parts of the devastated area on Monday, a waterspout eight feet high that swept away entire villages west of Brisbane.
In southern Queensland, floods have left 4,500 people incommunicado in the state of New South Wales and is expected to also reach Victoria. Seventy cities and towns are flooded or isolated, with 2.5 million people affected, and in some places the water level is still growing. More than 100,000 people in the city of Brisbane are without power, the company Energex has announced it will send generators to restore electricity as soon as there is no danger of short circuit can cause fires.
The death toll since November has risen to 23 and experts believe that damage to the Australian economy will be even greater than that caused in 2005 Hurricane Katrina in the United States.
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