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Yarraman Creek in flood last Sunday, as viewed from the rear of Susan Reilly’s Emmert Street house (Photo: Susan Reilly)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

January 30, 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n

Relieved Yarraman residents say the town has been spared a repeat of the damage suffered in the 2011 floods.<\/p>\n

Two years ago several Yarraman businesses experienced significant flood damage and at one point there were also fears the town could run out of food.<\/p>\n

This time around, though, the Timber Town appears to have been treated more kindly.<\/p>\n

As was the case in 2011, major flooding in the town centred around Yarraman Creek.<\/p>\n

But according to Susan Reilly, whose Emmert Street house adjoins the creek, things were nowhere as bad as they were two years ago.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“On January 10-11 in 2011 water was lapping the top step below our landing and 750mm flowed at speed right under our house in the middle of the night,” she said.<\/p>\n

“But last Sunday we only had about 50mm. And because the creek doesn’t have a very large catchment, we didn’t have to worry about a big rush of water following on later.”<\/p>\n

Today Susan and her husband Scott, who are Secretary and President of the recently incorporated Friends Of The Yarraman Creek community group, had a working bee at the creek with fellow member Val Page to inspect damage from Sunday’s flood.<\/p>\n

They found that while there have been some loss of revegetation plantings, most of the group’s work was intact.<\/p>\n

“I think we fared very, very well,” Susan said,<\/p>\n

“We were lucky that (ex-cyclone) Oswald didn’t stall over this part of the South Burnett.<\/p>\n

“But our thoughts naturally go out to those who are suffering up the eastern seaboard – especially the farmers. Their stock and crop losses must be overwhelming.”<\/p>\n

Jeff Thomson, from Jetson Engineering, also fared much better this time around.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Two years ago his business was flooded twice – once on the Sunday night (900mm) and then again the following night (1.8m).<\/p>\n

He had no forewarning of the flash flooding and lost office records, filing cabinets and computers in the deluge, as well as a week’s production while the business cleaned up and found its feet again.<\/p>\n

This time, Jeff said he’d had enough warning to move everything out of harm’s way before the rains hit.<\/p>\n

And while a small amount of floodwater still passed through the business, it was much less than two years ago and there were no losses this time around.<\/p>\n

Yarraman Stockfeeds also escaped flooding.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Two years ago the business had water in its premises and had to close for a day while flood-hit stockfeed was cleared out.<\/p>\n

But this time there was no flooding, no goods lost and no downtime.<\/p>\n

“We had about nine and a half inches of rain on Sunday,” Josh Lean said.<\/p>\n

“But it didn’t cause us any problems except getting to and from Nanango for a while.”<\/p>\n

The same applied to Yarraman’s IGA Supermarket.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 2011 it was hit by flooding and staff worked around the clock to mop up in the pre-dawn hours so the store could open on time.<\/p>\n

But in 2013 there wasn’t any water in the store and the main problem was a small shortage of fresh produce caused by road closures, Kelly Cadell told southburnett.com.au<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

However all shortage problems were solved today and trading was continuing as usual.<\/p>\n

“I think our town did pretty well overall,” she said.<\/p>\n

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Another view of Yarraman Creek at the height of Sunday’s flooding, as viewed from Emmert Street
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