Monday, January 21, 2008

Queensland flooding

After five years of extreme drought, Queensland is now in a different position: 1.000.000 sqKm (three quarters of the country) is flooded. And it is not over yet. Although we are not threatened ourselves, we are definitly affected by it: We are trapped in Windorah. The little map that I made, might explain. In order to leave Windorah we have to go east via Quilpie to Charleville, and then South. North is no option because the situation in the Longreach-area is blocked by the Coopers Creek. That same Coopers Creek is going to block us to leave Windorah to the West later this week. Leaving Windorah to the West is no option because that is where the world ends: The Simpson Desert (50+ degrees, no bitumen roads, next place for water and diesel in Birdsville, 400km west). So our hope is that the situation in  and around Charleville improves quickly (Charleville is totally flooded now, we cannot pass the Paroo and Warrego rivers at 3 and 4 yet), before the Cooper blocks us from leaving Windorah at the end of the week at 1). We just wait and see. We will not have any problem in town here, we just cannot leave.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Blijf zitten waar je zit en veroer je niet want er is..... ken je dat liedje nog?Nan