November 2008

21 November, 2008 – 2:42 pm

The storm season kicked into full gear in November with a series of devastating storms hitting South East Queensland, and significant events in other areas:

Early November Storms

16th November - Brisbane Storm

This was one of the most destructive storms to hit a major Australian city in many years. 4,000 houses were damaged.  85 houses were declared uninhabitable.  The damage bill is estimated to be in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

19th November - South East Queensland

Still cleaning up after the storms on the 16th November, a storm on the evening of the 19th dumped up to 250mm of rain in some areas of SE QLD resulting in flash flooding, evacuations, rescues and unfortunately a death.

22nd - 23rd November - Cold Blast

With only a week until Summer a front and an intense low off the SE Australian coast plunged Victoria and much of NSW back into Winter. Snow, hail, heavy rain and strong winds caused havoc:

28th November onwards - Peel and Macdonald/Namoi River Flood, NSW

Falls of up to 164mm in the catchment of the Peel and Macdonald (Namoi) River on the evening of the 28th November resulted in flooding on the 29th November in the Tamworth District.  The flooding was the first test of Tamworth’s new levee bank on the western side of the Peel River flood plain.  Many businesses were saved from the flooding.  Others were not so lucky - a railway embankment washed away due to the heavy rain flooding parts of Taminda. Elsewhere the flood waters resulted in a number of rescues from people stranded in trees and cars.

Note: Up until now the order of storms posted has been in reverse date order with the most recent storms being at the top of the post.  Why I was doing it that way is one of life’s little mysteries, but it has worked well for the most part.   When faced with a series of events such as those in Brisbane this month it made any sort of narrative a little difficult.  From now on I will try going in the opposite direction and see how that goes.  Cheers R

By Rhett | Posted in Floods, Storms |

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