There is no comprehending the sound and fury of the flooding that pulverised Brisbane | Andrew Stafford

How is anyone supposed to plan for that much rainfall in such a short time? This is simply what living in a climate emergency looks likeWhat caused the 'rain bomb'? How the unprecedented Queensland and NSW 2022 floods unfoldedThe things that will stay with me about the weather event and subsequent flooding that engulfed Brisbane and south-east Queensland over the weekend was how rapidly it unfolded, its capricious unpredictability and extreme violence.This was not a repeat of the 2011 disaster, which I also lived through, and the captains of hindsight suggesting this - in a simplistic and premature attempt to assign blame - are making a false equivalence. Continue reading...