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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 398814" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Sydney is a bit more than halfway down the NSW coast. Queensland is to the north. The Queensland border is 832 km away from Sydney centre. It would take about 10 hours to drive there. I have a brother just north of the border, and a sister just south. When I say "just", each is an hour on either side of the border, they live two hours form one another. Quite close, as our family goes.</p><p></p><p>Queensland, if you want to drive from the border to Cairns (still not the top, but where the tarred road gives out I believe) is another 1800 km and would take an extra 21 hours driving. 2632 km in all, 31 hours driving. From the centre of Sydney, which can sometimes take is to hours to reach from where we live. That's driving along the coast. Inland, Queensland is huge (although currently, very wet and underwater). At the moment the roads are cut in many places and have been since early December in places. </p><p>I'm not sure if Oprah got to Cairns. I know she got to Hamilton Island in the Whitsundays. That's about two thirds the way to Cairns. Properpine is on the mainland, about an hour's drive away from Shute Harbour where you can get a quick boat to Hamilton Island. There was flooding when Oprah was here, but not in that part of Queensland right then. Besides, on the coast if flows away quickly. Oprah would have seen the floods from the air. I've flown over flooding up the coast and it really is a spectacular sight. Not fun to live through it, though. Up there a lot of the older houses are built on stilts or high piles. Kids play underneath, in summer people live underneath and store stuff, but when it floods, the houses tend to be OK. But increasingly, people build at ground level. A big mistake up there.</p><p>For a while when I was younger, I lived with my parents in a house on high piles on the NSW north coast. It was latticed in underneath, but the height above the ground kept us safer from flooding rains pouring down the hill, and also kept the house cooler and vermin-free (mostly). Ground level is a lot riskier especially in floods - even if the water isn't entering the house, a lot of snakes, spiders, rats & mice are trying to get high and dry.</p><p></p><p>People often find it hard to comprehend just how big Australia really is.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 398814, member: 1991"] Sydney is a bit more than halfway down the NSW coast. Queensland is to the north. The Queensland border is 832 km away from Sydney centre. It would take about 10 hours to drive there. I have a brother just north of the border, and a sister just south. When I say "just", each is an hour on either side of the border, they live two hours form one another. Quite close, as our family goes. Queensland, if you want to drive from the border to Cairns (still not the top, but where the tarred road gives out I believe) is another 1800 km and would take an extra 21 hours driving. 2632 km in all, 31 hours driving. From the centre of Sydney, which can sometimes take is to hours to reach from where we live. That's driving along the coast. Inland, Queensland is huge (although currently, very wet and underwater). At the moment the roads are cut in many places and have been since early December in places. I'm not sure if Oprah got to Cairns. I know she got to Hamilton Island in the Whitsundays. That's about two thirds the way to Cairns. Properpine is on the mainland, about an hour's drive away from Shute Harbour where you can get a quick boat to Hamilton Island. There was flooding when Oprah was here, but not in that part of Queensland right then. Besides, on the coast if flows away quickly. Oprah would have seen the floods from the air. I've flown over flooding up the coast and it really is a spectacular sight. Not fun to live through it, though. Up there a lot of the older houses are built on stilts or high piles. Kids play underneath, in summer people live underneath and store stuff, but when it floods, the houses tend to be OK. But increasingly, people build at ground level. A big mistake up there. For a while when I was younger, I lived with my parents in a house on high piles on the NSW north coast. It was latticed in underneath, but the height above the ground kept us safer from flooding rains pouring down the hill, and also kept the house cooler and vermin-free (mostly). Ground level is a lot riskier especially in floods - even if the water isn't entering the house, a lot of snakes, spiders, rats & mice are trying to get high and dry. People often find it hard to comprehend just how big Australia really is. Marg [/QUOTE]
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