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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 399729" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>We don't have flood problems in our part of the country. The floods are in the major river systems on the east side of the country, form Queensland and down. It is huge and the floods take time to flow through the land, so heavy rainfall up north is known, and they forecast the floods downstream. For example when Proserpine was cut off, they had already known it was going to happen and begun evacuations, set up a field hospital on high ground and so on. Meanwhile further downstream they are getting ready, while upstream they begin to clean up. This takes weeks. Meanwhile it has rained again up north and it all starts over. Some areas have had the worst floods in 100 years, just a few months ago. Then a bigger flood has hit just now.</p><p></p><p>We get floods here, but our house is on high ground, one of the highest in the village. No water views though. But we can get cut off during floods, it happens several times a year for us. When there is a lot of water flowing from up-river, it can take a week or more for our floods to subside. But it's lightning fast for us, compared to the currently inundated areas further inland. That's because where our river floods, it is so close to the coast that it can get away fairly fast.</p><p></p><p>We've got more rain forecast starting tomorrow and going for the next week. My nephew is a typical Aussie Chesty Bond type of bloke, lives on a farm in north NSW, they're on the downstream end of the current Queensland floods plus getting more rain. Here are some of his comments from FB:</p><p>"Forecast says heaps of rain coming over the next week. Rippa. Like we need more.</p><p>Get your gum boots out everyone. We have a good one coming next week.</p><p>I'm over all the rain. Up to my knees is water shifting cows that are too dumb to understand why and going places they shouldnt. When is this rain going to stop? I had to buy water this time last year !!"</p><p></p><p>So although the Marg household and village are enjoying beautiful beach weather, we do have family struggling. The rest of my siblings are on high ground but the highway still is cut in many places, so they are stuck at home while their area is flooded. Because it is such a huge amount of water and over such a large area, it can take weeks to subside. And then - it rains again. We're currently experiencing a La Nina event here and this is when we get the floods.</p><p></p><p>Aussies are a quietly patriotic lot. We also put up with a lot of crud that life throws at us. Your patriotic poetry refers to grand scenery and beautiful vistas. Ours talks about the disasters and says we love it all anyway. "My Country" by Dorothea Mackellar is like our "This Land is Your Land". Her poem's second verse - "I love a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains, of rugged mountain ranges, of droughts and flooding rains. I love her far horizons, I love her jewelled sea. Her beauty and her terror - the wide, brown land for me."</p><p></p><p>This is a big country. A lot of different things can happen in different places.</p><p></p><p>Thanks for asking, though.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 399729, member: 1991"] We don't have flood problems in our part of the country. The floods are in the major river systems on the east side of the country, form Queensland and down. It is huge and the floods take time to flow through the land, so heavy rainfall up north is known, and they forecast the floods downstream. For example when Proserpine was cut off, they had already known it was going to happen and begun evacuations, set up a field hospital on high ground and so on. Meanwhile further downstream they are getting ready, while upstream they begin to clean up. This takes weeks. Meanwhile it has rained again up north and it all starts over. Some areas have had the worst floods in 100 years, just a few months ago. Then a bigger flood has hit just now. We get floods here, but our house is on high ground, one of the highest in the village. No water views though. But we can get cut off during floods, it happens several times a year for us. When there is a lot of water flowing from up-river, it can take a week or more for our floods to subside. But it's lightning fast for us, compared to the currently inundated areas further inland. That's because where our river floods, it is so close to the coast that it can get away fairly fast. We've got more rain forecast starting tomorrow and going for the next week. My nephew is a typical Aussie Chesty Bond type of bloke, lives on a farm in north NSW, they're on the downstream end of the current Queensland floods plus getting more rain. Here are some of his comments from FB: "Forecast says heaps of rain coming over the next week. Rippa. Like we need more. Get your gum boots out everyone. We have a good one coming next week. I'm over all the rain. Up to my knees is water shifting cows that are too dumb to understand why and going places they shouldnt. When is this rain going to stop? I had to buy water this time last year !!" So although the Marg household and village are enjoying beautiful beach weather, we do have family struggling. The rest of my siblings are on high ground but the highway still is cut in many places, so they are stuck at home while their area is flooded. Because it is such a huge amount of water and over such a large area, it can take weeks to subside. And then - it rains again. We're currently experiencing a La Nina event here and this is when we get the floods. Aussies are a quietly patriotic lot. We also put up with a lot of crud that life throws at us. Your patriotic poetry refers to grand scenery and beautiful vistas. Ours talks about the disasters and says we love it all anyway. "My Country" by Dorothea Mackellar is like our "This Land is Your Land". Her poem's second verse - "I love a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains, of rugged mountain ranges, of droughts and flooding rains. I love her far horizons, I love her jewelled sea. Her beauty and her terror - the wide, brown land for me." This is a big country. A lot of different things can happen in different places. Thanks for asking, though. Marg [/QUOTE]
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