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Annual ritual to remember ‘inland tsunami’ that hit Toowoomba a decade ago
Every year for the past decade, one of Toowoomba’s oldest stores, Rowes, has posted the same photograph on its website on this date.
In it, a sodden lounge chair is wedged upside down on a Russell Street parking meter – an oddity only revealed once the torrent subsided, exposing the damage caused by an “inland tsunami” on January 10, 2011.
An armchair sits impaled on a parking meter opposite Rowes in Russell Street the day after the January 10 floodwaters rushed through the regional city in 2011.Credit:Michelle Szepanowski
The city of Toowoomba sits 691 metres above sea level on a strip of the Great Dividing Range about 119 kilometres inland from Brisbane.
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