âCome home now or you wonât make itâ: Day of flood horror Former Queensland Times reporter Melanie Maeseele reported from Grantham for several days after becoming stranded there during the 2011 floods.
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Subscriber only IT IS hard to believe it s been a decade since the devastating 2011 floods that destroyed so many lives and livelihoods in the Lockyer Valley. Some memories from that fateful day - 10 January - will stay with me forever, others you try to forget for self-preservation. Those January floods in Queensland amounted to the worst natural disaster in the state s history; dozens of people died and billions of dollars in damage was caused.