Some drivers must have come down in the last shower if the antics on our roads yesterday were anything to go by.

Or perhaps some just can’t read a road closed sign.

Despite continual warnings on the ABC and other Coast radio stations from police for motorists to avoid driving in yesterday’s deluge, plenty did.

And some had absolutely no regard for the conditions.

Driving into work yesterday morning was hazardous at best.

I was keen to keep a maximum distance between myself and the car in front of me given visibility in the rain was almost zero.

But some other motorists did not share my sense of safety or sanity with large four-wheel-drives appearing suddenly behind me and looking to overtake on the Sunshine Motorway despite the obvious dangers.

Looking on the Daily’s website yesterday, I was not alone.

One Little Mountain blogger wrote: “What is it about the rain that seems to make people drive even worse than usual?

“I’ve had to go out this morning to drop the kids at school. I would rather have not driven but the kids already didn’t go to school on Thursday due to the weather and Friday was a public holiday.

“I drive fairly slow and cautiously in this kind of weather but others either fly past or sit right up your backside because you’re going slow.

“I value my life and the lives of my kids and don’t see the need to drive fast, or even at the speed limit, in this kind of weather.

“I watched a ute come flying down Caloundra Road and straight through a red light at the Little Mountain turn-off in the pouring rain.

“There are large amounts of water on the road everywhere and it is very slippery.

“It makes me angry that these people feel the need to do such things.

“Not only aren’t they thinking of their own lives, but other people’s lives too.

“It’s like people think they have to get to where they are going faster as it’s raining, almost like they think they are going to get wet or something.”

Equally frustrating for authorities – and home and business owners in low-lying areas – is the number of “flood tourists” that we get in such events.

You know the kind, the guys in their big four-wheel-drives who think it is cool to see how far up a closed road they can get.

I was up in Noosa during the deluge in August and you only had to talk to some of the business owners along the river to see the impact these idiots were having.

As they were busily sandbagging in a desperate bid to keep water out of their premises, waves of water were being created every time a flood tourist cruised by.

At the height of their frustration, business owners began putting up their own barricades in local streets to keep the flood fools out.

An out-of-town television news crew didn’t win any friends in the area when they cruised through at the time, filming kids trying to wakeboard behind a vehicle.

On the positive side, yesterday’s flooding certainly highlights the incredible job our police, firefighters, ambulance, SES and Energex crews do during a time of emergency.

Of particular note is our police communications centre, where officers continued to allocate job after job to crews in a calm and professional manner despite the sheer volume of calls from the public they were getting throughout the morning.

You only have to spend a few hours listening to the work these officers do to appreciate how valuable their experience and common sense is during a time of crisis.

And when it comes to service to the community, we cannot sing high enough praises for our State Emergency Service volunteers who give up so much time and effort to ensure the safety of others.
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On a final note, we would hope the situation where emergency calls from the Coast to the council’s emergency number being redirected to Brisbane is investigated and rectified.

Callers were being redirected to Brisbane City Council’s call centre, a situation which was unacceptable when information about flooding and road closures needed to be conveyed urgently.

While it may be standard practice to divert calls to Brisbane outside of office hours, surely arrangements should have been made given the deluge which was forecast last Friday.

The council also needs to improve its communication on road closures so it at least provides a link to a full list of closures on its website.