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Heavy rains worsen Australia's 'once in a century' floods

POSTED BY: JAYNEZTOWN
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Monday, March 22, 2021 7:29 AM

JAYNEZTOWN


Now its flooding

https://www.dw.com/en/heavy-rains-worsen-australias-once-in-a-century-
floods/av-56949417



Last year they had a brutal 2019–20 Australian bushfire season

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Monday, March 22, 2021 11:33 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


I wonder how MAGONSDAUGHTER is doing? Her last post, about a month ago, was that they were having lovely la Nina rains. Seems like it migt be too much of a good thing. (That explains CA dryness. La Nina produces rains in Australia but drought on USA southwest coast. El Nino is the opposite. It's like a teeter-totter across the Pacific and across the equator.)

I wonder if Australia has an active groundwater recharge program? That's the safest and largest place to store water, not behind dams.

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Monday, March 22, 2021 11:56 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


It hasn't rained here in 3 days and my sump pump still goes off 2 to 3 times per hour.

I REALLY wish somebody would find something useful to do with all the extra water around here.


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Tuesday, March 23, 2021 3:07 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


Isn't that whole continent a practical desert?

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Tuesday, March 23, 2021 3:17 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.



No, there are whole coasts of Australia that are tropical jungles or eucalyptus forests.




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Tuesday, March 23, 2021 8:02 PM

REAVERFAN


Australia's screwed. They did it to themselves, too.



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Tuesday, March 23, 2021 9:37 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Quote:

Originally posted by reaverfan:
Australia's screwed. They did it to themselves, too.






A surprisingly non-virtue-signalling post out of the Roomba.

Oh... I get it.

He must hate Australians because most of them are white.


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Wednesday, March 24, 2021 9:28 AM

JAYNEZTOWN


Aussie floods claim two lives as wild weather leads to waterfalls on Uluru
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/03/24/sydney-braces-plague-deadl
y-spiders-major-flooding
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Australian floods kill two, more evacuations as clean-up begins

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/australian-floods-kill-two-more-230128764.ht
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Thursday, March 25, 2021 3:21 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


That map still looks like the land mass is 80% desert.

It should be able to handle some rain. Maybe import some beavers.


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Thursday, March 25, 2021 4:02 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.



I didn't mention grasslands but they do exist. Most of Australia is either forests or grasslands, just like most of the NA is either forests or grasslands, most of Africa is either forests or grasslands, and so on.



Here's finer more specific designation of Aussie deserts.


And even deserts aren't always completely devoid of life. Here are some examples of that from our own southwestern deserts.

Mojave


Sonoran



So for example, here are some areas of Aussie deserts.

Great Victoria Desert


Tanami Desert



Why do you feel the need to display your ignorance so often?

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Friday, March 26, 2021 3:05 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


Quote:

Originally posted by 1KIKI:

No, there are whole coasts of Australia that are tropical jungles or eucalyptus forests.



Those still look like they can soak up some rainwater. Unless they have not planned for any potential rain.

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Friday, March 26, 2021 4:29 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.



Quote:

Those still look like they can soak up some rainwater. Unless they have not planned for any potential rain.

Maybe you can think about the difference between 'some' rainwater or 'any' rain as you call it, and massive amounts of rainwater.

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Saturday, March 27, 2021 1:53 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


Quote:

Originally posted by 1KIKI:

Quote:

Those still look like they can soak up some rainwater. Unless they have not planned for any potential rain.


Maybe you can think about the difference between 'some' rainwater or 'any' rain as you call it, and massive amounts of rainwater.

I was thinking deluge. Where would be the damage?

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Saturday, March 27, 2021 3:21 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.



Everywhere there was flooding ... though you might not count environmental damage as damage, because nobody's property was directly devalued.

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