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[Collins Richey]

On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 3:55 AM, Keith Antoine <kantoine at optusnet.com.au> 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.
>

Bummer. Of course, the US is not immune. Folks in eastern North Dakota
(Fargo area) along the Red River are encountering the worst floods in
one hundred years. Can you imagine stacking sandbags along levees and
dikes at zero degrees fahrenheit? Most of my wife's relatives are in
ND, so we've been tracking it.

The river has passed the high point of flood stage for now, but the
snow melt has not yet begun.



-- 
Collins Richey
     If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries
     of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.