*wingz* says:

Well – The town is 3/4 of the way up a small plateau. The whole ‘uphill’ area – about 30 square miles – received 150mm (6 inches) of rain in 30 minutes. An amount of rain at least 4 times as much as ever recorded in the area in such a small time since settlement about 200 years ago. The lucky people had less than 2 minutes notice from the start of floodwater to the destructive height of the flood wave – try getting out of your office tower and moving your car in less than 2 minutes – especially when there has never been a flood in teh area in anyones lifetime.

Glenn E. says:

One aussie woman said this was worse than the last time she remembered it happening. 36 years ago. Did they have global warming / climate change, back then too?

The Tv networks have been guardedly blaming all the whole wide flooding on AGW. Guardedly, because if it turns out NOT to be a reoccurring trend, after all, then they’d look pretty stupid for claiming it was. And then a year or two would pass without much happening. As it has before. Apparently AGW likes to skip a few years, just to fool us. Just as “warming” somehow results in colder than average and earlier winters. As well as increased snow and rain, instead of sever droughts. Which the calamitologists would also attribute to AGW. They get their cake and eat it too. To them, both a surplus, and a deficit, is cause for alarm. As long as nature doesn’t conform to their arbitrarily established levels of statistical perfection. We’re doomed!