South-east Queensland on flood watch

[davidc4430]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-12-13/queensland-weather-heavy-rain-warning-beaches-closed/12978930

South-east Queensland on flood watch as heavy rainfall brings huge swells, high tides

[rogespeed]

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@davidc4430 wrote:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-12-13/queensland-weather-heavy-rain-warning-beaches-closed/12978930

South-east Queensland on flood watch as heavy rainfall brings huge swells, high tides

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So what is new ? is the sub-tropics 

[rogespeed]

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@rogespeed wrote:

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@davidc4430 wrote:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-12-13/queensland-weather-heavy-rain-warning-beaches-closed/12978930

South-east Queensland on flood watch as heavy rainfall brings huge swells, high tides

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So what is new ? is the sub-tropics 

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However after 150 years of civil engineering developments why is flooding still an issue ? 

[viewmont1071]

 as long as you have a kayak you can still travel..... Dangar falls near Ebor on the waterfall way the day before yesterday 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9053597/Wild-moment-kayakers-plunge-30-metres-huge-waterfal...

[viewmont1071]

 half a metre or so in 4 days @ Bowra upstream  

[viewmont1071]

\I was thinking abput going for a drive up through Bellingen to the aptly named waterfall way (newell falls) to Dorrigo today.

....or maybe not

https://twitter.com/9NewsQueensland/status/1338689034172809219