Australia: ‘We have not seen water this high in recorded history here’

[Barrett808]

Large parts of Australia's coastal northeast disappeared under floodwaters on Sunday in a spreading disaster that has brought some of the highest floods on record and forced thousands from their homes.

Queensland State Treasurer Andrew Fraser described the floods as a "disaster of biblical proportions" and said the ultimate cost would exceed A$1 billion (1.02 billion).

As forecasters predicted months of more rain, hundreds of residents in the town of Rockhampton, 600 km (370 miles) north of the Queensland state capital Brisbane, fled homes amid rising waters which are expected to reach over 30 feet deep in coming days. ...

Record floods swamp Australia’s northeast coast – ‘We have not seen water this high in recorded history here’

[jpak]

1. global warming is a fraud

yup

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. 30 feet deep floodwaters? More than 200000 people....area bigger than Texas...

Reports from several news stories on the web.

Worse.." BEGINNING of the rainy season"..

[jwirr]

3. I missed it: What caused this flood? Excess rains?

[Esra Star]

4. Yes, the rainfall has been very heavy.

In Oz we normally end prolonged droughts with flooding rains.
The big problem, I think, is the amount of vegetation (specifically trees) that has been removed over the years.
On the positive side, only "Darwin Award" candidates have died so far. There has only been
2 or three of them.

[jwirr]

5. Thanks. I have been following it but did not see the beginning. I

wonder when we are going to understand that trees have a place in the echo system? Where I was born in NE Iowa they cut all the trees right up to the river banks and then wonder why the water levels in their wells are dropping.