Tag: floods
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May Day mayday! A tale of extraordinary weather and extra-ordinary lasagne.
It’s been a long time between posts. As per the forecast, my PhD has reduced this blog from a bubbling stream to a lifeless dry creek bed. But any stream can be revived with a little rain. And with a lot of rain, it all comes flooding back. ‘A lot of rain’ is one way…
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The Western Creek floodgate: a reality after 125 years
Way back in January, I reported that the City Council had begun constructing a floodgate at the mouth of Western Creek. This is the spot where the Milton Drain meets the river, right next to where the dilapidated shell of the old floating restaurant still stands. If you have passed by this spot in the…
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A floodgate for Western Creek
So, it’s really happening. If this sign is to be believed, then Western Creek is finally going to have its floodgate. The photo was snapped at the entrance to the footbridge under Coronation Drive at the mouth of Western Creek (otherwise known as the Milton Drain) a few weeks ago by Steven Cowley, who has…
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The legend of the lost lagoon
If you’ve read my earlier post about the Waters of Milton, then you will have already encountered this story, but I’d like to give it a post of its own. It’s the story of a lagoon that existed in the area bounded by Cribb Street, Park Road, Coronation Drive and the railway line — just…
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Are we learning yet?
A story in the Brisbane Times this morning, titled Buyers less fearful of flood zones, made me a little bit mad. Though I try not to buy into the blame game around the 2011 flood, I suspect that the real estate industry is partly responsible for the false sense of security that set in after…
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Here we go again . . .
I don’t know about you, but I didn’t expect to be seeing scenes like these just a couple of years after January 2011. (See the new Gallery page for more pictures of today’s flooding.) Then again, we shouldn’t be surprised: there’s no reason why floods should be spaced out evenly over time. Indeed, the historical…
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When waters collide
Just over a week ago I posted about the ‘tidal limits’ of Milton Drain, noting that at a very high tide, the drain is pretty much full to the brim. Today, I braved weather that ranged between miserable and awful in order to see how the drain held up when it had more than just…
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Floods aniversary special
Two years ago today, Rosalie and many other parts of Brisbane were underwater. Any misconceptions we had about the power of Wivenhoe Dam to save us from ever being flooded again were swept away, and before long, attention turned to what, if anything, we could do to stop this from happening again. In a post…
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Fun with maps
The icon at the top of this page, and the fuller version on the homepage, features a depiction of Western Creek from A.R. McKellar’s 1895 map of Brisbane overlaid onto the modern landscape. For me, this fusion captured the essence of what the site is about: gaining a deeper understanding the modern landscape though an…