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/

OMG will these floods never end! They are really having problems in Australia right now. Hope all our members are safe and dry.

Prayers for all who are going through this

Ditto all above statements.

How awful for all of you Aussies. Our prayers are going out!

So sad. I am sending Prayers!

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.

some places in Australia are still hard to live in. it's a hard land.

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.

so sorry for all the misery in Australia. I ve never been there but I always pictured AU as a rather dry country. This much water is a shock to see. sharet