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   From: grawillers@westnet.com.au   
      
   "Ciaran"  wrote in message   
   news:45C18B5A.7040803@ciaran.com...   
   > Adam Whyte-Settlar wrote:   
   >> "Ciaran"  wrote in message   
   >> news:45BEDCD3.6070203@ciaran.com...   
   >>   
   >>> Drought-breaking rains in Ozzie !!! You beauty mate !!!   
   >>   
   >> Looking better in places but it's hardly 'drought-breaking' news for most   
   >> of South QLD and the south east.   
   >> Brizzie's dams still at about 20% full last I checked.   
   >>   
   >> We haven't had much up here (Cairns) yet either.   
   >> Here's hoping though, looks like a cyclone forming.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>   
   > First a cyclone soaks WA from north to south, then the monsoon comes down   
   > and soaks the whole NT and the Kimberleys, then links up with a southern   
   > ocean low and moves to western Queensland, SA and western Victoria and   
   > soaks it so the Diamantina is flooding now to fill Lake Eyre. We've even   
   > starting to get some rain in parts of NSW and coastal Queensland now. I   
   > think this is the start of a La Nina drought breaker !!!   
      
   Hope you're right - nae kidding.   
      
   I know the Diamantina is flooding and filling lake Eyre but it's a big   
   country and the Diamantina flooding doesn't affect the Murray-Darling   
   catchement in the slightest. And the Murray - Darling is the one that feeds   
   the truly economicaly significant areas after all.   
   And it's still a fact that Brizzy and Sydney are still dying of thirst at   
   the moment.   
   For all your touching 'she'll be sweet' attitude there is still a ****ing   
   long way to go yet.   
      
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