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#AceWeatherDesk – The 2022 Queensland floods brought intense rainfall, which quickly broke riverbanks, swamped roads and claimed many lives and livelihoods within a matter of days.

Three weeks on, the extent of the damage has become clearer.

To understand how wide and vast the recent flooding was, here is a breakdown to show how the “rain bomb” devastated the state’s south-east corner.

Monthly rain totals

Firstly let’s look to the skies. February’s rainfall totals were simply record-breaking.

A staggering 887 millimetres fell in February – that’s more than double the nearest monthly high of 366 millimetres in 2020.

In three days alone, Brisbane received 80 per cent of its annual rainfall, Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said on March 1.

She described the rain event as “bigger than 1974”, with more than 30 suburbs across the south-east corner receiving more than a metre of rain.

Dam capacity

It’s no surprise then that water levels were almost at dam-busting proportions.

Inflows into Wivenhoe Dam shot up faster than they did in 2011.

In just three days this year the Wivenhoe Dam capacity rose from 58.7 per cent on February 24 to 183.9 per cent by February 27.

That’s a 125.2 per cent increase in dam capacity in three days and just shy of the 190.3 per cent total reached in the 2011 flood.

But Wivenhoe “performed exactly how it was designed to operate” as it “held back four Sydney Harbours worth of water” during the extreme weather event, Seqwater said in a statement.

That’s equivalent to more than 2.2 million megalitres of water.

The damage bill

The estimated damage bill has been put at more than $2.22 billion with 147,993 insurance claims so far across Queensland and New South Wales.

Queensland has requested almost twice as many claims as New South Wales – despite places like Lismore also experiencing record-breaking flooding.

But this is not the final bill, as the numbers are expected to continue rise as residents with urgent claims are being prioritised by assessors, Insurance Council of Australia said in a statement.

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