FIGJAM takes the points here I think. Anyway, another 50 to 100mm coming for some flooded areas this week, could be getting a lot worse for some areas. Get up to Dartmouth for a look if you have a weekend spare. Absolutely spectacular!
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'Act of God' is a legal term for insurers for extraordinary events.
I prefer MRNA vaccines to protect me from Covid.
It's more than one horse race though, it's hundreds of horse races, concerts, events, etc every year. Protecting infrastructure that has such high use makes sense.
Your second point - is this a proven fact yet or speculation?
The infrastructure was approved at the time - you could argue that there may have been pressure or even undue influence on "waving it through" at the time, but I haven't heard enough reporting on this. as yet.
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we've got ministers with racing as a portfolio, there is a lot of money involved in keeping the gambling industry happy
amazing how many people are cool with peoples houses being flooded to protect some turf though
you can guarantee that the water that would have ended up on the track ended up somewhere else instead, given the only other place it can go is to surrounding land, some of the water damage from the flooding has to be from that wall, its really just a question of how much
Don't think anyone is cool with houses being flooded.
But protecting a large income earning asset makes sense. Indeed the additional tax collected can go toward better housing infrastructure. Or hospitals or any number of other good things. Not to mention the employment gains.
That all needs to be weighed up against the probability and extent of any other damage that could be caused. It is a real discussion worth having. I assume it was had when this was approved but likewise am interested to know how fair and transparent that process was.
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plenty of people seem to be more worried about flemington though
its a ****ing grass track that makes money off gambling, if the government had to pay for the clean up this decision caused I don' think they'd come out ahead on tax revenue
its a flood plain, the built the track on a flood plain and then decided it shouldn't be a flood plain anymore making all the other properties around it at higher risk, and none of those people got a say in it, they just got lumped to protect the racing and gambling industries profits
its peak capitalism bullshit
Ahh ok why didn't you just say so.
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Is there a thread about the floods in vic besides this one?
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Didn’t rain yesterday and won’t rain today
Plenty coming over the next few days though
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Echuca and Moama are completely ****ed and further upstream the same. We are supposed to get 50mm up here over the weekend. Have to wonder how Echuca could become so built up with population and be just downstream from 3 rivers converging and not have a better levee system.
Ive got a wet Sunday coming up
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Is that a forecast? We’ve had 8mm so far, near the beach.
Yeh. Its due to start around midnight according to two different models (hence the two images with two different amounts).
Had 100mls overnight, North Brissie. Nothing more than a few puddles around, ground handled it well. Rainbow Beach 300mls friday
Looks like it's coming in hard towards Goldy now
Yeh if we get 150-200 illbe trapped in both tonight and tom morning when high tide coincides. But thats fine. I went and grabbed food this morning in readiness
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Was meant to have a bit of rain here but it hasn't happened with this rain event. Probably a good thing as last weeks one was pretty bad.
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53mm today, according to willyweather.com.au 
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bit of precipitation north of the city and north east.
Lismore gonna get smashed again over next 24 hours 
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