Flash Flood, Warrego Highway on the range 10 Jan 2011

I received this photograph of the upside of the Warrego Highway on the range. It was taken at the saddle just before the last climb to the top of the range at Toowoomba. I was shocked.There was very little warning of this flash flood from the same storm cell which flooded Toowoomba (not the same water though as that floodwater would flow west from Toowoomba).

Imagine the deaths if this flash flooding had occurred in the night - as it was people were surprised by the flood in the early afternoon.