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Marg, I've been wondering about the floods.
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<blockquote data-quote="Marg's Man" data-source="post: 399790" data-attributes="member: 4085"><p>DDD you said </p><p></p><p>Me too. I was born out where those floods are now but we moved over Sydney way while I was very young. When I was about six my parents went to look at the floods at a town about 15 miles from our then home. The town is in a river valley about two miles wide and runs to the sea along a 40 mile course. It was full to a depth about 6 metres(20 feet) over the road, itself about 6 metres above the normal river level. The flood markers, which give depths above normal river levels, were under water themselves; they only showed to 15 feet then; these days they show to 15 metres.</p><p></p><p>The sight of that sea of brown water ( by the standards fo these floods it was <em><u>tiny</u></em>) affected me. </p><p></p><p>Jump forward twenty years and Marg & I are looking for somewhere to set up our home. We saw a cheap block of land in the village we now live in and went to for a look. I saw it was on a potential flood site and refused point blank to even consider it. So we went to the local real estate agent and bought the block we eventually built our present home on. </p><p></p><p>It has a nice outlook but not great views. It DOES have one perfect feature though - only a <strong>MAJOR</strong> tsunami will ever flood it!</p><p></p><p>Marg's Man</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marg's Man, post: 399790, member: 4085"] DDD you said Me too. I was born out where those floods are now but we moved over Sydney way while I was very young. When I was about six my parents went to look at the floods at a town about 15 miles from our then home. The town is in a river valley about two miles wide and runs to the sea along a 40 mile course. It was full to a depth about 6 metres(20 feet) over the road, itself about 6 metres above the normal river level. The flood markers, which give depths above normal river levels, were under water themselves; they only showed to 15 feet then; these days they show to 15 metres. The sight of that sea of brown water ( by the standards fo these floods it was [I][U]tiny[/U][/I]) affected me. Jump forward twenty years and Marg & I are looking for somewhere to set up our home. We saw a cheap block of land in the village we now live in and went to for a look. I saw it was on a potential flood site and refused point blank to even consider it. So we went to the local real estate agent and bought the block we eventually built our present home on. It has a nice outlook but not great views. It DOES have one perfect feature though - only a [B]MAJOR[/B] tsunami will ever flood it! Marg's Man [/QUOTE]
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