QLD floods

[AMDave]

Sorry.
I just meant to say thanks, but it all came pouring out !

[Tamaster]

Our hearts are with you and your countrymen Dave...

[Dirk Broer]

Last flood we had here in the Netherlands (apart from the one where an old river dike broke through) strangely enough afflicted the highest part of the country, southern Limburg. There the Maas river comes into the country and it had been a very lazy river for some 30 years or so. So people had started to build their house in the so-called "uiterwaarden", country adjacent to the river, where in former times the river would flow in cases of very high water. Only person not the suffer from the flood appeared to be a German who had done his homework: his house could rise along poles on the corners of his house and the whole structure remained floating and anchored. I live at 52°N 4.5°E and the area is thought to be just below sea level, so I have my computers on the 2nd and 3rd floor, just in case.