Blogging the Flood at the University of Queensland
Posted by Linda, on 30 January 2011
On January 12th, about three quarters of the Australian State of Queensland was flooded as local rivers and creeks overflowed from rainfall. Needless to say, it’s been an extremely wet summer. One victim was the University of Queensland, which still stands next to the Brisbane River, the cause of the city of Brisbane’s troubles. Flood waters receded on January 14th.
To clarify, I’m not in Brisbane’s University of Queensland, but many other students are. A few thousand in fact.To keep everyone in the loop, UQ students have a blog on the University’s website. the latest post from January 13th comes just after the flood reached record highs on their St. Lucia campus (they have several other campuses in other areas). It’s aim was to be informative to students on and off campus. Details include which buildings were affected, university closure dates, who to call if you need counselling etc. Rest assured, no biological buildings were harmed in the flooding.
In a quote from the chancellor, water levels reached those of recording breaking 1974. In the university news website, Brisbane has only experienced massive flooding 2x in its history, once in 1893, the other in 1974. It can now add 2011 to the short list.
(Tad jealous, if only the ANU had a student run blog too. On the other hand, happy to be missing out on the excitement up at UQ.)
UQ also keeps a Flickr photostream, with images of the recent flooding and clean-up. Click here
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I am sad to hear about problems in other universities. Here in Chile, we are close to met one year afterr the destructuve 8.8 earthquake that destroyed many research facilities (either by the earthquake itself, or by fire or flooding because of the tsunami that followed minutes later).
I hope that people at Queensland and other places can face this problem with success.
I hope Queensland’s doing well too. :)
Sad to hear about what happened to Chile and its universities! I can’t imagine anything worse than several disasters in one go. How have the universities recovered?