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- Amicus0
This is absolutely devastating, but Nathan's correct, it's a massive flash flood. I haven't seen anything that looks like an 8m tsunami style waving. Sure, the water was flowing fast and rising furiously, but I didn't see any so-called wall of water.
It's high time Queensland (and other flood prone areas) governments realised the risk of flooding and turned low lying areas into parks, green wedges or something else that keeps businesses and homes out of high risk areas.
Some of these areas have been flooded 5 times in just the last 3 weeks, and many have been flooded, or close to many, many times over the last 50 years. Learn from the past and plan for even worse to happen in the future.
The only thing stopping this from being a much bigger tragedy is the local heroes who risked their lives to help pull people out of trees, cars and other areas.
- like Floridians, probably time to just move elsewhere...neue75_bold