Tag Archive: Flooding

Feb
03

Mel-burn!

I’m back! I shan’t bore you with the details of getting to Brisbane Airport, but I will mention that on passing through the city, it was easy to see the damage left by the floods. Fortunately, wasn’t as bad as I’d hoped, and I was able to get away with only an hour’s delay on …

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Jan
28

Rain, Rain, Sun

January 2011, a month many Queenslanders won’t forget too quickly. A record 65% of the entire state had been declared a disaster zone. The flooding rains which began mid-December eclipsed the length of time that insurance companies define “flooding”, which means that people could (in theory) claim that this is their second, or maybe even …

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