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"The images and stories of flash flooding coming out of Victoria’s Great Ocean
Road overnight have been described as “terrifying”. It’s easy to see why.
Holidaymakers at Victoria’s Wye River watched as cars were swept out to sea and
a caravan park was rapidly inundated. Some had to get new clothes at an
op-shop.
One resident at nearby Separation Creek told the
ABC:
We missed being killed probably by about ten seconds […] we just ran for our
lives.
I’ve been studying floods and flood risks for decades. On the one hand, this
was a shocking event, due partly to the bad luck of such a heavy downpour
occurring in an area with many geographic risk factors for flash flooding.
On the other hand, it was not surprising. These one-in-hundred chance floods
will occur somewhere every year, and with climate change these kinds of events
will become more intense and more frequent.
In fact, due to global warming over the last 30 years, there is clear evidence
the intensity of such thunderstorm events have increased by 15–20%."
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
