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Thank you Ursula fo ryou kind thoughts.

I'm OK thanks. I live in New South Wales and currently all of the flooding is in Queensland and that is a long way north of where I live (thank goodness). We've had lots of rain and some local flooding about a month back - my local shopping town was cut in two by floodwaters when the river went up, and there was lots of debris as stuff got washed down the river but that was only of very short duration and no houses were flooded.

Poor old Queensland is a different mattter entirely - an area the size of France and Germany is affected by flood waters :-((

Yes, we're being told that on the news day in, day out. Australia is incredibly huge! Good to hear that you're safe. I'm sure you mentioned where you're from but I forgot, sorry. I bet, though, that there is a wide solidarity with the flood victims in your country and they will receive some kind of help through donations or what ever. Or am I thinking better of your countrymen then they really are? When we had the major floods along the river Elbe, many of the folks in the western part of Germany donated and helped otherwise, although they don't think to highly of folks in the eastern part. (The wall is still there, at least in the heads of all of us.)

U.

I know I'm a little late jumping in here but I just read today about the economic cost of these floods. It's just astronomical. I do hope your North East can get back on it's feet quickly. The only thing I can compare this too, in my mind, is the damage that Katrina did to New Orleans. My heart goes out to your country mates who have been affected. Juno