Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Storm floods Oz after dire drought 1/21/07

The main point:

Australia is living up to its iconic image as a sunburnt country of droughts and flooding rains, with a huge outback storm causing widespread flooding on Saturday while bushfires burned, fueled by a worst-in-a-century drought.

Some have been "megafires", created in part by global warming and a drought which has provided an abundance of fuel, stretching thousands of kilometers.

My thoughts:

We need to start assuming that the unimaginable events in the "it can't happen here places" are going to happen.

What do you think?

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