Records

[Tony Alfrey]

Keith Antoine wrote:
> With the natural disasters we in OZ have had this year that have set 
> records, I thought that they were over.
> Just a short while ago when I was reporting on the floods in North 
> Queensland and mentioned a figure of
> approx 1000mm in a fairly short period of time, that were were over 
> that. Well we were not just yesterday
> we had very heavy rain in SE Qld, but a small town of KIN KIN some 100 K 
> north got 700mm in 5 hrs,
> and of course total devastation for the loss of 1 life and a pub.
> 
> Qld still is in drought if you travel west and north some places no rain 
> for 4 years so its a place of total contrasts.
> 


Thanks for the update.  Amazing stuff.  Sorry to hear about this 
horrible weather and devastation. In the US, we call 6 inches an hour a 
good-sized river.  Meanwhile, the rain in California has done it's usual 
April shut-off, not to restart again until November.  But I must tell 
you that Oz has the greatest names for small towns anywhere.

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Tony Alfrey
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"I'd Rather Be Sailing"