By Emily-Rose Toohey
After a wild weather weekend, the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) are expecting more rain and thunderstorms for the Southern Downs and Granite Belt regions until mid next week.
A BoM spokesperson said showers and thunderstorms will continue across south-east Queensland.
“Today will be a particularly wet day,” the spokesperson said.
A Southern Downs Regional Council (SDRC) spokesperson said that the heavy rain over the weekend has impacted many low lying bridges and roads around the region.
“The advice provided from BoM has been shared with the community via the MySDRC Facebook page and Council’s Disaster Dashboard – stay vigilant and if it’s flooded, forget it,” the spokesperson said.
“Council crews are still actively monitoring roads throughout the region and has kept the community updated via Council’s Disaster Dashboard.”
As of this writing (Tuesday 1 March), there are 31 road condition warnings for the region due to flooding.
Here are the 19 roads that have been closed:
1. Killarney, The Head – Condamine River Rd (road closed to all traffic)
2. Goomburra, Forest Springs Goomburra Rd (road closed to all traffic)
3. Clintonvale, Doyle Rd (road closed to all traffic)
4. Clintonvale, Kadow Rd (road closed to all traffic)
5. Goomburra, N Branch Rd (road closed to all traffic)
5. Berat, Berat Forest Springs Rd (road closed to all traffic)
6. Yangan, Hermitage Emuvale Rd (road closed to all traffic)
7. Killarney, Backhouse Rd (road closed to all traffic)
8. Yangan, Strudwick Rd (road closed to all traffic)
9. Warwick, Victoria St (road closed to all traffic)
10. Junabee, Junabee Rd (road closed to all traffic)
11. Pratten, School of Arts Rd (road closed to all traffic)
12. Upper Wheatvale, Wheatvale Plains Rd (road closed to all traffic)
13. Bony Mountain, Dwan Lane (road closed to all traffic)
14. Warwick, East St (road closed to all traffic)
15. Toolburra, Toolburra Plains Rd (road closed to all traffic)
16. Warwick, Churchill Dr (road closed to all traffic)
17. Warwick, Rosehill Rd (road closed to all traffic)
18. Stanthorpe, Britannia St (road closed to all traffic)
19. Stanthorpe, Granite St (road closed to all traffic)
For further and regular updates, access disasterdashboard.sdrc.qld.gov.au/
