View from a bridge: Hell and high water

Which is not to say he has left behind the horrors of January 10, 2011, when the historic town in the Lockyer Valley bore the brunt of that epic flood that swept through the state’s southeast.The inland tsunami that roared into the Lockyer Valley claimed 12 lives in and around the Grantham district and destroyed nearly 150 homes.Amid the horror of that day, Mr Purton was on the railway bridge with floating cars crashing around him, working courageously to pull residents out of the swirling brown…



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