Queenslanders share their memories of the 2011 floods on tenth anniversary of disaster

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January 10, 2021 06:15:19

Queenslanders share their memories of the floods of 2011 after an “inland tsunami” thrust cars into trees, water tanks onto roads and swept away an entire town, killing 36 people.

The first sound Murray Imms remembers was the roar of the water surging towards his Lockyer Valley home.

The next were the screams of his neighbours.

“It was just a roar like a plane and then all of a sudden there was water,” Mr Imms said.

“A lady that lives down [the road], she got caught.

“You could hear her yelling, ‘I want help’, but you couldn’t get to her.

“That’s the sort of thing, that just flashes through your mind.”

It was January 10,…