Re:Tell HN: Flooded area in Queensland now the size of Texas
by liedra on Wednesday January 12, 2011 @07:55AM
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A lot of this will go to help poorer people unable to insure their homes and/or contents, or to help relief efforts feed, clothe, and house evacuees. It may not be a poor country but there are still poor people. Just like Hurricane Katrina in the US -- though our government seems to do a better job than the US when it comes to disaster response.
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Re:Tell HN: Flooded area in Queensland now the size of Texas
by jacques_chester on Wednesday January 12, 2011 @05:36PM
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Our governments get a lot of practice. Fires, floods and cyclones are relatively common occurrences, though rarely on this scale.
I imagine that at this point emergency services in the south of the US are pretty good at responding to tornadoes, for example.