It never happens, but it did happen

  • Jane Goodall

17 January 2011We are in a situation in which unprecedented weather events are to be expected, but we still don’t expect them, writes Jane Goodall in Inside Story

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“YOU wouldn’t think this could happen because it never happens, but it has happened,” said Peter Taylor, mayor of Toowoomba. “No one has planned or dreamed about rainfall of that intensity.” Queensland Police Commissioner Bob Atkinson provided journalists with the perfect tagline when he described the resulting flash-flood that hit the town last Monday afternoon as an “instant inland tsunami”…

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