Carnarvon floods Western Australia
#1
A different area - Western Australia in flood as well. If you see the word "station" in some of the pictures in the second address, it is the Australian version of a "ranch".
http://video.couriermail.com.au/1703...arvon-isolated
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/gal...narvon-floods/
http://video.couriermail.com.au/1703...arvon-isolated
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/gal...narvon-floods/
#7
It's hard to imagine so much flooding but from what I can tell from internet research is that the flooding a few days ago was about the size of France and Germany combined. Since I've never been there that comparison didn't tell me much so I looked it up and found that Germany is slightly smaller than Montana and France is close to the size of Texas. So for anyone else here in America that had a hard time visualizing the devastated area, now we can.
#9
I've always thought of Australians as being a tough resiliant people. This is such devastation yet the people being interviewed seem to reinforce my opinion. If anyone can pull through this it will be the Australians--good attitude, good work ethics, and one tough backbone.
This is a horrible tragedy and I'm definately not trying to minimize it any way, just wanted to say that I admire the people I've seen on the news stories.
This is a horrible tragedy and I'm definately not trying to minimize it any way, just wanted to say that I admire the people I've seen on the news stories.
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