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StoneTwin t1_j3w6yq9 wrote

So a part of the country that isn't massively exploited for industrial resources is able to sometime look pretty when people ignore it but it gets a bit of incidental water?

This reeks of trying to make Australia sound good environmentally when they have a lot of hard work to actually fix their situation.

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midmon t1_j3w8wt7 wrote

Replying to StoneTwin (#1,332,476)

There's no agenda either way dude. It's just newsworthy because Central Australia isn't usually flooded. It's not meant to be this way, it's literally a desert and has been for thousands of years. If anything it's indicative of the climate crisis, not the other way around.

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ReasonablyBadass t1_j3wia9u wrote

How long will it last? Will some of the water fill aquifers?

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warrant2k t1_j3wn8ei wrote

Californiain here. Expect lush greenery, then it'll dry out with no more rain, then wildfires that go unchecked.

If you have mountains there are bonus mudslides.

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SirWhatsalot t1_j3ww0t3 wrote

A Major shift like this is not good news. To me it's like "good news everyone! It's now not as cold in the winter!" Aka the planet is just beginning to boil but hasn't yet.

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yodippiddy t1_j3wytl3 wrote

Looks like bad news for the new max max movie production.

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Alas_Babylonz t1_j3x6v9w wrote

I was in Woomera, Australia when the horrific drought of 1982/83 ended. After the rains finally came that Spring (October) the smell was striking and incredible! Somewhat stinky but vibrant. Rot and new growth at the same time.

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Amithrius t1_j3xan4s wrote

So they're saying it's invigorating?

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HanMaBoogie t1_j3xaw4t wrote

Now I know where to sail my yellow submarine.

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vacuum_everyday t1_j3xayve wrote

Replying to chipsinsideajar (#1,333,957)

Serious question: why do Californians add “the” in front of everything, but especially freeways?Up north we just call it I-15. As in “I-15 is jammed with hours long delays.” Other freeways are just their number.

But “THE 15” setup is a dead giveaway they’re from California.

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SirWhatsalot t1_j3xb76x wrote

Replying to CaptainMagnets (#1,333,810)

The warmer winter I ment in general regardless of where you are, but yes, it is summer there, but if all of the sudden people were happy death valley in the US was blooming I would not be thrilled , in fact I would be terrified of what this means and for what's about to start happening and becoming the "new normal".

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handyandy727 t1_j3xbs8f wrote

Replying to vacuum_everyday (#1,334,304)

My wife is from California and still can't explain that. Maybe it's because state highways are so big too? Like Highway 90 is basically an interstate in size. I dunno.

ETA: We live in KY, and we just say "65" or "71". We omit the "I-" but don't use THE unless it's a parkway or expressway.

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razor_eddie t1_j3xge64 wrote

Replying to warrant2k (#1,333,180)

>then wildfires

Largest ever Californian wildfire was just over a million acres. In 2020. That year, the wildfires burned just over 4 million acres. Which was a record.

https://www.fire.ca.gov/media/4jandlhh/top20_acres.pdf

In Aus, in 2020, bushfires burned about 10 times as much acreage (46 million). A bad year, but not the worst.

In the last 20 years, the 99 million acre one in the Northern Territory.

THe 1974-5 season took out 290 million acres. (The state of California is 104 million acres in size).

Trust me, Australian bushfires make californian ones look tiny.

The bad season in 2020, the Southern Alps in New Zealand got a fair dusting of ash from the Australian bushfires. That;s like getting the ash from a California fire in Arkansas.

Australian trees (eucalypts) have evolved to survive bushfires, there are that many of them. Australia does bushfires worse than anyone else.

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ashera_spectre t1_j3xgfiv wrote

"Local fauna is florishing."

The picture shows a real pissed off bearded dragon, haha.

I am sure he's happy about all the blossoming life and food from the rain, though.

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razor_eddie t1_j3xhh35 wrote

Replying to SirWhatsalot (#1,334,325)

You know that the frogs who are adapted to these sort of events will be welcoming the rain, to fill up their water bubbles for the next dry season?

The last hundred years in Australia have been unusually dry. This greening is both welcome and expected, and not a "major shift" of any sort.

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Blargcar t1_j3xjvbx wrote

Replying to vacuum_everyday (#1,334,304)

Because Los Angeles and southern California had freeways before a lot of the country. Instead of numbers at first they had names like: The San Diego freeway, the Pasadena freeway, the long beach freeway. The San Diego freeway became the 405, Pasadena became 110 and long beach became 710, along with Ventura freeway (101).

So people were used to saying THE then the name. Then when they became numbers they were used to saying THE then the number. It makes sense when you think of it and know the history.

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N-ShadowFrog t1_j3xk68m wrote

Replying to yodippiddy (#1,333,748)

Might actually be kinda cool. Like maybe not for mad max but it would be a great setting for a post apocalyptic world where the earth is actively healing and the people fight over whether it’s time to stop and settle down or continue their wandering ways.

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BrutusGregori t1_j3xkpaa wrote

My uncles place out in Joshua tree is going crazy will all the flowers coming in.

His wash behind his house is like a river.

This is the high desert of California. All this water around the world is causing so many problems but it sure is awe inducing.

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parsifal t1_j3xplvl wrote

Wow, Google says it would take me 2 days and one hour to get to the Red Centre.

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TheGardenNymph t1_j3xqe2m wrote

Replying to warrant2k (#1,333,180)

This is part of the desert cycle in many parts of Australia, the landscape and ecosystem is used to heavy rains up north flowing down for hundreds of kilometres along existing river beds, many towns expect these yearly flood cycles that bring large scale animal migration, it's been happening for hundreds of years. Australia is not California.

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Feebeeps t1_j3xv207 wrote

Sky of blue and sea of green?

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is0ph OP t1_j3xvt68 wrote

Replying to SirWhatsalot (#1,333,611)

If there are frogs waiting for water in the sand, there was flooding before… Australian climate has huge variations even without climate change, that’s why the country is also at high risk from its effects.

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Fullonski t1_j3xy0ml wrote

Replying to warrant2k (#1,333,180)

Australian here, thanks for telling us how climate cycles work. We’re pretty inexperienced with the whole floods and subsequent wildfires thing here, so any advice is appreciated. 🙄

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JustLikeJD t1_j3y1nt6 wrote

As an Australian I always take this news with a grain of salt. This is years in the making and often catastrophic fooling and weather events make way for this.

Likewise we are teetering in the verge of moving back into La Nino and if that happens then all this greenery will dry up very quickly and fuel the next round of bushfires.

I live rural and the amount of unkept and I trimmed greenery that’s grown over the last 12 months is very concerning. In my area there hasn’t been a lot of burn offs either.

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alldressed_chip t1_j3y34xu wrote

Replying to Fullonski (#1,335,381)

lmao californian here, and I think original commenter is very much in “buckle up” mode rn - it’s been a little wet here recently 🤪 can’t wait to see what that means!! hottest ticket in town

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StarxStone t1_j3y4ol2 wrote

Yeah I've been seeing Australia is doing great weatherwise this year

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Footbeard t1_j3y94tb wrote

This is beautiful but there isn't water to sustain this. Wide corridors need to be cleared to prevent a repeat of the bushfires we experienced fewer than 5 years ago

El Nino is likely gonna hit us halfway through the year and we need to be prepared so more than half our country doesn't catch fire again.

The cycle of growth & decay is remarkable & it's very important for us to learn from the land

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CarlsbergCuddles t1_j3yn7mv wrote

This has the Nats and Cotton farmers licking their lips....

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God_Damnit_Nappa t1_j3ysvuj wrote

Replying to vacuum_everyday (#1,334,304)

If you're going somewhere you'd say something like "I'm on the freeway." I assume it's a similar reason. Like "I'm on the 405." It sounds weird to leave out "the." I don't personally buy the "well the freeways were named before they had numbers" explanation but I suppose that's a better reason that "just because."

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sarcasiman t1_j3yuoly wrote

"Over the past week, parts of the central-west of the Northern Territory have received between 200 and 300 millimetres of rain, while Alice Springs Airport received 84mm in the 24 hours to 9am Monday."

Converted: 7.87" , 11.81" and 3.3" (in order of appearance.)

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deadheadlinenmustfly t1_j3yx5m8 wrote

Nice. It reminds me of when my wife and I flew into Alice Springs in March of 2000. "The Wet" had been unusually so in the outback and there were lots of green plants around. On the descent, the pilot wecomed us all to "Australia's _green_ center."

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PerriX2390 t1_j3yxfxj wrote

Replying to Ethicaldreamer (#1,336,904)

> Someone needs to fix the wiki page for it to better explain that they are real, and will eat your face.

Of course they're real. Thankfully just a bit of vegemite behind your ear and they'll leave you alone when bushwalking.

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Jlx_27 t1_j3yxunx wrote

Just like ancient times! Ahh the good old days eh?

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Pelsi t1_j3z0eqn wrote

Replying to uruguay2609 (#1,335,851)

We are swinging into a neutral ENSO period right now though, which should be good-ish news for both of us (Australia and S. America) for a while… until El Niño hits of course.

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Ididitfordalolz t1_j3z3e9t wrote

Replying to JustLikeJD (#1,335,555)

Fellow Aussie, also live rural. We’ve had bushfires reach one ridge over from our house, have a water pump and tank just for fires and the dam at the dairy farm opposite us is used by the water choppers. Even with all that, it’s gonna be another sketchy one folks

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Ididitfordalolz t1_j3z4azj wrote

Replying to nzdennis (#1,336,144)

Sigh not again. Hey Dav-o grab the big stick again! Gotta teach these chunky pricks not to use my lawn as a sunning spot!

Fr though. Have had crocs swimming on my previous property during floods. Also big fuck off pythons🤷🏼‍♀️

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Rosie2jz t1_j3zac2f wrote

Replying to razor_eddie (#1,334,567)

Remember when we convinced California to import Eucalyptus trees and then they ran wild and took over and now Cali's bushfires are 10x worse then they ever were? California wildfires are pretty similar to ours and both our fire fighters share training, personal and equipment during bad seasons.

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JustLikeJD t1_j3zg20x wrote

Replying to Ididitfordalolz (#1,337,291)

I know that worry. We’ve just moved about 30 mins out of the closest rural town and our property where we are at has a seperate tank to pump into from the river next to us to help fight fires with a seperate petrol pump so it’s isolated from our homes power system. Still makes us uneasy.

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Ghostpumpkin t1_j3zmb2y wrote

As someone who lives in Western Australia, I'm glad at least Alice did alright with the extra rain. The Fitzroy river flooding is pretty devastating from the same ex-tropical cyclone. Its 50km wide in areas apparently and some towns will be completely inaccessible by road for many months.

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zeno82 t1_j3zmh0a wrote

Nobody else amused by the name "Todd River"?

Not sure why, just sounds like some colonist was having a go at a friend.

"Hey, Todd, finally found a place as wet as your bed sheets, you nerd. Naming it Todd River after ya".

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brad_987 t1_j3zp212 wrote

Now the crocs can go anywhere

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mvyrmnd t1_j3ztqin wrote

I'd love to see Trephina Gorge full of water like this.

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InadmissibleHug t1_j3zw23z wrote

When I went to visit Uluṟu in 2001, it wasn’t long after a wet event.

The roads were delightfully edged by desert flowers, it was so pretty!

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MtnMaiden t1_j3zyvpx wrote

Billabong. A pool/pond made from flooding.

Never swim in one due to crocodiles.

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fleebleganger t1_j403g0y wrote

Replying to razor_eddie (#1,335,676)

Or people with palatine. Damnit, autocorrect. Those fancy bikes that “had a scandal” when they came out because of something in the ad. Whenever someone owns one it’s not an exercise bike it’s a “peligrini”.

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berger034 t1_j404tef wrote

This is going to be California soon. Rainfall is like 300% of what we get in the year.

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JustLikeJD t1_j40htaj wrote

Replying to Original_End2444 (#1,339,642)

It’s not just that easy. Money is a major issue for most to just up and leave.

We’re in a rental shortage in Australia. A pretty dire one actually. We got our current property on the back of a recommendation to the landlord from some family friends. There’re were only two other rentals going at that time in our closest town (9,000 residents).

I work a very specific job (caseworker for young offenders) and I’m able to have security here because there is a high demand for workers like myself in rural areas.

Last time we had a bushfire season even major cities were having runaway fires get fairly close to suburbia.

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MarauderGaming t1_j40r9e1 wrote

As a colour blind person on the red green side of things. I see no difference

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AR96-BDB t1_j40tkq1 wrote

Replying to razor_eddie (#1,334,567)

Don't quote me, but I remember reading somewhere that so much vegetation was burnt in Australia's December 2019-january 2020 bushfire that the ash plumes cooled the planet 0.25-0.5 Celsius, owing to it blocking the sun partially.

Again, I'm not sure if it was real or just nonsense.

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