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February 25th, 2012 
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Steve and Mandy Harry with a couple of the five horses they had to rescue from flood waters near Pomona this morning. They were stranded on a newly formed island in the middle of one of the paddocks. Picture: Robyne Cuerel
Source: The Sunday Mail (Qld)
IT’S been a wet end to another Queensland summer but, luckily, most of the state escaped the kind of rainfall that bucketed down last year.
It comes as Gympie today braces for flooding with the deluge that drenched the Sunshine Coast on Friday night heading down the Mary River.
Authorities are expecting a flood peak in Gympie of 16m, which would close the Bruce Highway at Normanby Bridge.
Businesses on River Rd in the centre of town were yesterday relocating as much as they could ahead of the anticipated overnight flooding.
Yesterday the Lord Bridge, which connects to the southside of town, went under.
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Mayor Ron Dyne said that the Mary River was rising faster than at any time in recent memory. However it was not expected to surpass last year’s flood level.
Cr Dyne said disaster managers were keeping an eye on Six Mile Creek which empties into the Mary.
Meanwhile properties in the Sunshine Coast hinterland were cut off throughout the region due to flooded roads and damaged bridges.
More than 300mm fell in parts of the northern Sunshine Coast hinterland – around Cooroy – in the 24 hours to 5am yesterday. Houses and businesses in nearby Pomona were hit by a wall of water which poured down Factory St, drenching the community.
Authorities will continue to assess the damage and try to reach stranded residents.
The state’s biggest falls yesterday were in the southeast. The Gold Coast and Maryborough experienced the worst weather. At Mt Mee, northwest of Brisbane, 34mm fell.
It brings to an end a season that saw 623.6mm of rainfall in Brisbane, down from more than 952mm last year when the city was besieged by floods.
But weather bureau forecaster Vinord Anand said the upper trough that brought rain over the weekend was moving inland, leaving only cloud cover and isolated showers over the southeast.
“What’s happening at this stage is the weather is slowly easing off,” he said. “We had quite a number of places that had 100mm-plus of rainfall (in the 24 hours to 9am yesterday). Most of this rain came when this upper low was over the southeast district.”
Cairns, Townsville, Mackay and Rockhampton will also have patchy showers today and early in the week while the Gold and Sunshine Coasts will have winds at 20-25 knots.
Mr Anand said the rain had also brought unseasonably cool weather, with most of the southeast, Wide Bay and Darling Downs regions seeing maximums 2C-4C below average temperatures.
He said temperatures would return to normal by about mid-week before the wet weather returned ahead of the weekend.
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