Shocked Brisbane-living can see the water rise

Thousands of people evacuated at the moment in Australia's third largest city, Brisbane away the water that is constantly rising in the Brisbane River and river. The last days have at least nine people died.

About seventy people are also missing, after the surprisingly, several feet high tidal wave that swept over the city of Toowoomba. The residents in Toowoomba do not believe their eyes when they see how a cementhus worn by the masses of water and crush a bridge as easily as it is to break of a match. It is filmed in the central parts of the city by a private person who then put it on Youtube.

The Mayor of Toowoomba, Peter Taylor, describing the BBC that neither he nor anyone else in town knew something this could happen there.

- Toowoomba is located 700 meters above sea level so no one here could imagine what happened, "said Peter Taylor, referring to the houses, cars and people who just swept away by the water.

And the rain just continues in the southern parts of Queensland. Three-quarters of Queensland is now under water - an area larger than Germany and France. And now threatening water masses Brisbane, where the city's Mayor Campbell Newman warned residents in the coming days.

- Today, the water level in the river very high, tomorrow it will be very bad and Thursday will be a devastating day for both the residents of the town and for Brisbane's business, he warns.

Offices and shops are closed and people have bunkered up with food and water for the expected masses of water. Gridlock on the roads out of town are massive when, according to CNN television, 80 suburbs, with around 6500 houses could be under water.

The shops and offices in the city center - just where the broad Brisbane River makes a 90 degree turn, so that the water surrounding the city center.

After the devastating floods in 1974 was built in Wivenhoe Dam. Now it is filled to the brim and authorities have suspended the river even more by releasing water from the pond so it will not overflow or rupture.

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard warns of the dangerous flood waters.

- We must prepare for more bad news, says Prime Minister - who is now just a fact that no Baran its economy hit hard but also to Australia's weather service predicts more rain in the coming days. And yet still a few months of the monsoon season.