2010 is off to a ferocious start, on the 6th of February the Gold Coast got slammed by torrential rainfall, up to and over 400mm in parts, the focus has been largely on Coomera, after all the John Muntz causeway got trashed, guardrails were ripped off, shipping containers smashing into it, I have heard reports it will be closed from one week to a month. Tom, Ebony and I stopped to check out the damage again the following night and one of the traffic workers there told us the engineers said one month to fix it, as the water has "scooped out" the underside of the causeway and it is apparently very unstable and could collapse at any time. We checked out various roads around the area, and found one had had a fairly decent segment washed away by the rain, I have also heard reports that a crossing on Birds Rd has been completely washed away also.
Sam
Dice - Finley Quae and William Orbit (EP)
Sam
Dice - Finley Quae and William Orbit (EP)
Whoa farrout!!
ReplyDeleteNice photos samu, I like how you composed them.
Is it seriously going to be closed for a month? Oh mannn... Guess who's going to be going to uni the loooong way, hahaha.
Thanks for blogging this, been looking out for some interesting flood aftermath shots.
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Thanks Soph!
ReplyDeleteYeah I have to say, that little sony point and shoot does a great job, and I really have put it to hell and back, still snaps fantastic however...still plenty of Photoshop to bring them up to scratch, should see the originals.
I think that it will be fixed up sooner than later, it's obviously a major road..duhh lol, so yeah I think they are on it. You can still get down to BI-LO so just hitup reserve road, better than henry roberts in your case, thats what mum has been using to get up the mountain (she lives right near the causeway).
Cheers!