I'm having a problem comprehending how such a vast area is flooded. Is it a flat bottomed valley surrounded by mountains? The news in the USA is a saying it's as large as France and Germany combined. I'm used to cities being flooded but this must be devastating.
jennifer h
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You have actually asked this on the New Zealand section but I was looking through it so can answer as i live in Queensland . I live on The Gold Coast south east queensland to get to Rockhampton it is 600 kilometres away so a good days driving and Rockhampton is about half way up Queensland along the coast . So the state is very big at 1346200 square kilometres. from Rockhampton above is in the tropics. It can stay dry for many months some places years so the land gets hard and when it rains there is no soft ground to soak the rain up. How ever these floods have filled the rivers and they are over flowing in many places here on The Gold Coast and Brisbane we are fine. There are many towns some small some quite large and several towns have been flooded to the point of evacuation. they are on flat ground Much of the land is desert like or growing areas we grow a lot of sugar cane pineapples Melons etc and these crops in many places have been ruined. It must be terrible for these people . Also being on the NZ site have you seen that Christchurch in NZ has had over 4,000 earth quakes in a few months That must also be terrible.
Alex
Slight problem here buddy...Queensland is in Australia which is a different country to New Zealand. But yes - a huge area of Queensland is flooded.
Anonymous
Only the east coast has mountains, the rest of just flat.
If rain continues there's a real possibilty of 95% of Australia being flooded.
Anonymous
yes it true