{"id":539983,"date":"2026-03-14T13:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T13:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/539983\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T13:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T13:08:11","slug":"residents-of-outback-queensland-town-on-alert-for-major-flooding-to-reach-its-peak-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/539983\/","title":{"rendered":"Residents of outback Queensland town on alert for major flooding to reach its peak tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Major flooding in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/queensland\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Queensland\">Queensland<\/a> is flowing to the west of the state, with the town of Longreach expected to reach its peak tonight.The outback town is bracing for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/floods\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"flood peak\">flood peak<\/a> of 6.7 metres from this evening.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier today, floodwaters were slowly but steadily rising and seeping into the streets.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/d291c502-5fe5-406e-bc78-089c2896b767.jpeg\"   alt=\"Major flooding in Queensland is flowing to the west of the state with the town of Longreach expected to reach its peak tonight. The outback town is bracing for a flood peak of 6.7 metres from this evening.\"\/>The outback town is bracing for a flood peak of 6.7 metres from this evening. (9News)<\/p>\n<p>The deluge cut off roads, swallowed low-lying areas and forced wildlife to wade through water.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve been busy sandbagging doors, front and back doors on most homes, and, we&#8217;ll continue to do that whilst we have the opportunity, but the water is definitely here now and it&#8217;s rising,&#8221; SES Longreach local controller Diesel Stenholm said.<\/p>\n<p>There is more help on the way from across the state.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have six of our local volunteers and they&#8217;ve been joined by eight from around the state,&#8221; Stenholm said.<\/p>\n<p>The tight-knit community of Cramsie, in the Longreach region has spent the past few days preparing.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/e54e3c0e-98e9-4c5b-b942-e87003f64998.jpeg\"   alt=\"Queensland floods: Sandbagging continued this afternoon with State Emergency Service (SES) crews already putting together nearly 2000 bags in Longreach Queensland.\"\/>Sandbagging continued this afternoon with State Emergency Service (SES) crews already putting together nearly 2000 bags. (Supplied)<\/p>\n<p>The Jones family built their own one metre high levee around the perimeter of their property in a last ditch effort to protect their home.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The water is rising quite quickly, we&#8217;ve built it around the set of yards as well, because we&#8217;ve got some horses in there,&#8221; Longreach local Jackarra Jones said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am a little bit concerned that it will not be enough,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While one town prepares for a flood peak, other communities are commencing the mammoth clean up after floodwaters receded.<\/p>\n<p>This is particularly the case in Bundaberg, where a group of volunteers known as the mud army, get to work.<\/p>\n<p>NEVER MISS A STORY: Get your breaking news and exclusive stories first by following us across all platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Major flooding in Queensland is flowing to the west of the state, with the town of Longreach expected&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-539983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}