Wednesday, January 30, 2019

THE BIG WET COMETH

Gustav Creek , Magnetic Island.
Mushrooms pop up , are blown over .
Inundation Anderson Botanic Park , Townsville .


Flooding  next to Foodworks, Nelly Bay.
 
Part of Magnetic Island  known as The Pope's Land is  awash, cane toads  are heard calling at night , there is water underneath the new   seafood café and  the Queen of the Jungle , who has a leaky roof ,  reported  an  unidentified  , long-tailed  bird  she  had  never  seen before . 
High and dry.
 
After further torrential rain, public buses stopped running in Townsville  and  on Magnetic Island , schools  closed. Debris swept  down by  raging    Gustav Creek has  piled  up on the Sooning Street  roadway   crossing , a portion of  the sealed roadway in Compass  Crescent   has  lifted   giving the impression of floating .  At  the  Willows  shopping   centre in Townsville yesterday  there were many leaks  in  the  building  and  part  of  a  ceiling   collapsed  in  a shop .