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Originally Posted by avandonk
Peter as usual you are at best misinformed at worst a stirrer. The Missisipi is just as these rivers that have a FLOOD PLAIN. Even the the powers that be have come to the conclusion that flood mitigation on the Mississipi have only moved floods to other areas.
Bert
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Not stirring Bert, just observing the bleedin' obvious.
....and I must have missed the levee system last time I was in Brisbane.
Sure it is hard to protect any flood plain city against extreme events (eg Katrina breaching the Mississipi levees in New Orleans in some 50 locations)...but tropical cyclones are rare in SE Queensland...hence a Brisbane River levee breach (if they actually existed) would be very unlikely.
Given the extra energy in our atmosphere (i.e. climate change) I would expect extreme weather events such as this to become more frequent.
But as long as we can download, well, whatever, quickly over the NBN...as this is "the most important nation building project of our time"... we should be happy.
