Australia needs to decide how much worse we want these disasters to get and take the climate action needed to keep people safe
Lismore on Monday. ‘If you had a flood plan – which everyone on flood-prone land does, especially since 2017 – it was meaningless.’Lismore on Monday. ‘If you had a flood plan – which everyone on flood-prone land does, especially since 2017 – it was meaningless.’I
My friends are in tinnies, the same friends that always jump in their tinnies during floods. Usually, they go from veranda to veranda to visit and check up on the families, sitting there with their chooks, dogs, cats, rabbits, sometimes a goat or a sheep. There is always a place on the veranda for the wildlife too. They have a beer together and talk about how long until the river unswells, the clean-up, and ask if everyone has got what they need.
If you had a flood plan – which everyone on flood-prone land does, especially since 2017 – it was meaningless. We have the 1974 flood imprinted in our cultural fibre. It was the biggest flood. There are markers on power poles all round town. These are the floods of the past. They are not the floods of today, the floods of climate change.The official early warnings this time were better than before. The CBD business owners responded with vigour.
It came bigger and earlier. It’s now above 14.4m and it’s still raining and there is a still a monster of a system sitting above it all. What is the most a flood can be in our basin? Is it 15m? Why had we not planned for that?
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