Currently the east coast of Australia is having the worst flooding in 30 years. Four inches of rain fell in one night in the city of Queanbeyan, causing the river to flood all of downtown. The Australian attornery general declared 45 communities disaster areas, as they have had torrential downpours for weeks now. This is typical weather for December in Australia but this year the rain has been so intense that crops are being completely wiped out and there have been 4 deaths. These deaths, to no surprise, have came from motorist. Either their cars have been swept away or when trying to leave their car they were swept away themselves. Like we have learned this is a very common way people die in situations like this. The problems is that people know it is dangerous but they think they can just drive through anything, when in fact it only takes a little water to take control of your vehicle. This areas, which are being evacuated because homes are being submerged by water, are being claimed disasters for mitigation reasons. Once a disaster has been declared those communites can dip into federal funds for aid. This is great but like we have learned in class these kind of plans arent always the best. To me it seems as there should have been aid given out prior to today. Now they have to deal with deaths and strandad civilians. Another problem is people probably do not know where all the money is going. I am sure everything will be fine, but there easily could have been other steps taken to save peoples lives.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101210/ap_on_re_as/as_australia_flood
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