Week5- Queensland, Australia Flooding brings back memories

In addition to our projections lab we were "let loose" so to speak on a nearly adventurous
trip to Queensland, Australia to check out their flooding situation.   Even though my GIS experience
is limited my personal experience with flooding is still too familiar.  Some others may have
also experienced this traumatic event. Some floods come slowly, building over time.
Our July 4th, 1994 in Macon, Georgia came with no fireworks. It came with Alberta a minimum tropical storm out of the Gulf of Mexico. In two days over 25 recorded inches of rain fell near us (neighbors rain gauge). A major dam broke north of Macon during the night, sending a 30-40 foot wall of water towards our town.  Only the crisscross of Interstate 16 & 75 with the steep side of the cemetery hill kept it from taking over.   We were without water for eight weeks; they put porta pottys on the streets for apartments and businesses to use.  Getting around the damaged bridges was a pain.
With these thoughts in mind, I found a fairly new interactive map that Queensland has put into place. it shows their road conditions, traffic issues, construction road sites.   By clicking on the first layer of markers, it tells you how many incidents there are in the area. Enlarging the map, click again,an individual marker comes up (ie) on a road telling you real time conditions, passibility, construction status and when they will check again on the road status.  It was current within several hours of today.
Here's a screenshot:      www.QLDAlert.com/road-closures-map

The map was enlarged from a full view of all of Australia (enlarging scale on left side) to show
north eastern tip of Queensland on east coast paralleling Great Barrier Reef.  Markers are
reflecting real time road conditions and closures,  Closed roads were in brown.  The northern
most brown road is Penisula Developmential Rd.