12 January,2011 10:49 AM IST | | Agencies
Greg Kowald was driving through the center of Toowoomba when a terrifying, tsunami-like wall of water roared through the streets of the Australian city yesterday.
Office windows exploded, cars careened into trees and bobbed in the churning brown water like corks.
The deluge washed away bridges and sidewalks; people desperately clung to power poles to survive. Before it was
over, the flash flood left at least 10 dead and 78 missing.
The violent surge in Toowoomba brought the overall death toll from weeks of flooding in Queensland state to 20. Queensland Premier Anna Bligh said there were "grave fears" for at least 18 of those missing.
The high waters headed next to Australia's third-largest city, Brisbane, where up to 9,000 homes were expected to be swamped.
