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[[File:Australian-floods-birds-eye.jpg|thumb|left|300px|The Queensland town of Emerald]] News organizations around the world such as this [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/02/queensland-biblical-floods-australia the Guardian newspaper] describe the recent floods in the Australian state of Queensland that has reached "biblical" proportions. | [[File:Australian-floods-birds-eye.jpg|thumb|left|300px|The Queensland town of Emerald]] News organizations around the world such as this [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/02/queensland-biblical-floods-australia the Guardian newspaper] describe the recent floods in the Australian state of Queensland that has reached "biblical" proportions. | ||
| − | The worst rains for 50 years have caused 6 river systems to burst their banks and this has resulted in half (850,000 square km) of the large state of Queensland being covered by water. Queensland is an area 1700,000 square km in size. The area flooded being about the same as France and Germany combined. Around 200,000 people have been affected with more than 20 towns being isolated and 1 woman has died so far | + | The worst rains for 50 years have caused 6 river systems to burst their banks and this has resulted in half (850,000 square km) of the large state of Queensland being covered by water. Queensland is an area 1700,000 square km in size. The area flooded being about the same as France and Germany combined. Around 200,000 people have been affected with more than 20 towns being isolated and 1 woman has died so far. |
| − | <gallery widths=300px caption="Satellite image of Queensland before and after floods"> | + | It could take weeks for the water to drain away and the town of Rockhampton, population 75,000 is next in line to be inundated by the flowing flood water as it travels downstream eastwards towards the coast. |
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| + | It is quite appropriate here to mention that Billy sent warning letters to governments and other organisations on multiple occasions, at least in 1951, 1958 and 1964. Virtually all did not respond and now you can see that whatever action they took, if any, was completely and entirely inadequate. The worst part of it is that this flood is probably a minor one when the future is considered. | ||
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| + | '''"only now in the new millennium everything gets even worse, because nature will revolt even more mightily against your environment-destroying insanity and will reach a scale equal to the primeval times of the Earth."'''<br /> [[Human being of the Earth|''Billy, May 2009'']] | ||
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| + | <gallery widths=300px heights=360px caption="Satellite image of Queensland before and after floods"> | ||
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Revision as of 12:42, 2 January 2011
News organizations around the world such as this the Guardian newspaper describe the recent floods in the Australian state of Queensland that has reached "biblical" proportions.
The worst rains for 50 years have caused 6 river systems to burst their banks and this has resulted in half (850,000 square km) of the large state of Queensland being covered by water. Queensland is an area 1700,000 square km in size. The area flooded being about the same as France and Germany combined. Around 200,000 people have been affected with more than 20 towns being isolated and 1 woman has died so far.
It could take weeks for the water to drain away and the town of Rockhampton, population 75,000 is next in line to be inundated by the flowing flood water as it travels downstream eastwards towards the coast.
It is quite appropriate here to mention that Billy sent warning letters to governments and other organisations on multiple occasions, at least in 1951, 1958 and 1964. Virtually all did not respond and now you can see that whatever action they took, if any, was completely and entirely inadequate. The worst part of it is that this flood is probably a minor one when the future is considered.
"only now in the new millennium everything gets even worse, because nature will revolt even more mightily against your environment-destroying insanity and will reach a scale equal to the primeval times of the Earth."
Billy, May 2009
- Satellite image of Queensland before and after floods
Before
After
