Rain to continue across Ipswich

Stephanie Maguire, Danielle Berlin and Ashlee Berlin brave the rain on their way to school on Monday morning. Photo: Rob Williams MA0110WC

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RECENT tsunami warnings keep water and flood damage top of mind on Queensland’s coast, while unpredictable storms and floods again threaten the interior.

A WET start to March is expected to follow a month of solid rain for Ipswich.

The weather bureau has predicted the monsoon low pressure system responsible for dumping bucket loads over Western Queensland will also deliver heavy rain to Ipswich on Tuesday.

The intensity of the rain will ease tomorrow but heavy grey skies should stick around until Friday.

Yesterday’s rain could have contributed to several traffic accidents across the district.

A woman suffered a knee injury and back pain following a two-car collision on the Ipswich-bound lanes of the Cunningham Highway about 6.40am. Police said the accident occurred between the Amberley RAAF base turnoff and the Ampol service station at Purga, blocking traffic for about one hour.

The woman was taken to Ipswich Hospital in a stable condition.

A car lost control and went through a fence at Holdsworth Road, North Ipswich, about 7.30am, and two cars collided at the intersection of Milford and Limestone streets, in the CBD, about 12.30pm.

Up at Toogoolawah, a car skidded off the Brisbane Valley Highway near Gregor’s Creek about 12.18pm.

Council employees were called in to clear a large amount of mud from the road.

Nobody was injured.

Typically our wettest month of the year, February 2010 was no exception, with a healthy 105.8mm recorded at Amberley.

The figure was just short of the 120.8mm average, however, other parts of the district received much better falls.

Heavy rain that arrived with strong winds late on February 14 brought the total up to 120mm in parts of Ipswich, and several suburbs recorded in excess of 80mm.

That showed in the total February rainfall figure for Bundamba, where Queensland Times rain watcher Douglas Jesberg recorded 188mm.

Even Laidley, notoriously dry in the last few years, registered a healthy total of 120mm.

The rain has created a 4.5 per cent increase in the region’s dam levels since the beginning of the month.

Wivenhoe Dam was at 62.9 per cent yesterday, following rain and releases from Somerset Dam, which is at 95.7 per cent. North Pine Dam was 100 per cent.

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