Yeah well all jokes aside and although I grew up in Darwin, it's hard for Adelaideans to appreciate what their average annual rainfall (500mm) might be like dumped on them in just 24hrs. So don't complain about our water quality next time you're passing through, unless you're prepared to spread it around instead of pinching it all before it gets here.
Fortunately very few of us live around Onslow, the TC capital of Oz, as you can see from the pics and stats-
http://www.bom.gov.au/cyclone/history/wa/onslow.shtmland don't believe all that hype about global warming cum climate change cum extreme weather when you check out that graph of TCs tween 1910-2006
Trixie was really Tracy's much more powerful, wicked step-sister but without lots of people in her path she barely rates a mention-
http://www.bom.gov.au/cyclone/history/trixie.shtmlwhich is what all the extreme weather alarmism is really all about nowadays. Just a lot more people and expensive property in the path of Mother Nature and they've forgotten the poignant poetry of a 19yr old schoolgirl from Gunnedah pining for 'My Country" far away in England in 1910.
I know about Trixie because the old man was a surveyor with Australian National Railways at the time and was called out to Zanthus to gauge the water threat banking up and flowing beneath the new Trans line into the Great Australian Bight from 1700km away through the desert of WA. He had some pics of that phenomenal amount of water that blew away the best flood proof culverts and bridges that engineers thought would suffice at the time. Something like a Sydney Harbour emptying every 24hrs and those pics showed water as far as the eye could see. It's why they know a canal could bring Kimberley water downhill all that way if it were ever economically feasible.
