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Phred wrote:
Quoting from The Weatherzone 15 Feb 2008
Weather News: Torrential rain creates flooding havoc in Mackay

yes, it's called the Wet Season which runs for 6 months and then it's
the Dry Season, and you want all the rain you can get.

You're a bit optimistic, mate. Once off the coast here in the deep
north of the deep south, the wet season barely lasts four months
(December to March). We get about 83% of our annual rain during that
period. Further north that rises to over 90%; and as you go south
things gradually get a bit more uniform *on average*, but more
unreliable year to year.

there is no disaster, it's all normal and how it should be.

Recent rainfall events are a bit beyond "normal". I think you might
have to go back to the 1950s to find a comparable wet season in Qld.

the only tragedy is that people continue to build in the wrong places.

They didn't actually start to do that in many places until farmers
realised subdivision was more profitable than agriculture and local
councils were keen to grab the rates money so they permitted some
pretty shonky residential developments.

According to a mate of mine who used to live down there, there's a
good example in the Brisbane valley -- the old farm houses are up on
the sandstone slopes; the new pony club "estates" are on the river
flats. And, of course, we know how that "rich alluvial soil" beloved
of real estate agents, got there!

Cheers, Phred.

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LID