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"When Dorothea Mackellar wrote of flooding rains more than a century ago, she
couldn’t have anticipated anything on the scale of the current deluge in
Queensland.
The downpour, which began as a lingering low pressure trough topped up by rain
from ex-tropical cyclone Dianne, has dumped a phenomenal amount of water on to
outback towns and cities, inundating homes, cutting access to communities and
causing stock losses in excess of 150,000.
The resulting floods – the boom in the boom-bust cycle that characterises this
arid landscape – have filled dryland rivers and expanded across wide and flat
plains, reaching a scale not seen since European colonisation."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
