flooded down under

[boznarras]

I hear in the news about all the flooding in NE Australia. They give the damage estimates in terms of billions of dollars, etc. Worst floods in 30 years they say.
I know there are several ozzy TG members, and I hope you are all are doing OK. I'm also curious what this is doing to the countryside and the critters, how all are coping. What is it like there?

[Ben Maher]

The floods are a fair way from me ... but even down south after years of drought , we have lost most of crops to the rains .

My thoughts and prayers are with everyone up north .... the flood is bigger than Germany and France combined and it rained again up there last night .

All the pigs will be breeding up though .....

A couple of TG'ers live up that way ...

[cacciatore]

Prayers for the unluky and dangered people there.

[ti-guy]

prayers sent

[J-dog]

Think tradtusker is down there working right now - Hope all are well.

J

[hova]

i too saw this and thought of the tg fam in nz. i hope youre all high and dry , and if youre not dry , i better not see you checking tradgang...

-hov

[ChuckC]

Wishing the best for our friends down there.
ChuckC

[Benny Nganabbarru]

The flooding has put some hunting plans on hold for quite some time. I'm not a scientist, but as I understand it, during El Nino we have really good hunting in the arid / desert interior; it is now La Nina, and that pretty-much makes it very difficult / impossible / not worthwhile to do those big trips for goats and camels. El Nino brings drought to much of Australia, which is bad for the pastoralists but good for bowhunting; La Nina brings flooding, which is good for pastoralists (often no so good for farmers), but not good for bowhunting.

[Dave Bowers]

dang yawl stay dry down there.

[slivrslingr]

Definitely strange weather here this year.  We're experiencing a severe drought here in the west, while the is east flooding.  We are getting rain north of Perth though, Carnarvon got a years worth in one day a few weeks ago and is flooding again today.  I've got a hunting trip to the desert planned in a couple weeks and hope it stay at least a little dry!

[katie]

No fun!  Prayers for all the Aussies.