Why can floods like those in the Northern Rivers come in clusters?
- Written by: Margaret Cook, Lecturer in History, University of the Sunshine Coast
Right now, Lismore residents are going through their second major flood in a month.
On February 28th, the devastating first flood peaked at 14.4 metres, fully two metres higher than the previous record of 12.27 metres in 1954, and well above the town’s 10-metre-high levee wall, constructed in 2005. Four people died, with 2000 homes destroyed...
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