The floods have been horrific. Thousands of houses and hotel rooms are gone for a long time. It will take a long time to construct any sort of housing to replace them. Thus where are people going to live? In tents? Worse where will all the tradies needed for the construction live whilst they attempt to build all these houses? Where is all the waste going to go?
When are we going to work out where people can live? A lot of these people were not insured because of the cost. This will increase after the floods. Are people for the government really happy to pick up the tab on this. We have now seen two 1 in a 100 ( or 1%) events in two years!
If governments successfully use mitigation techniques then all is good but this is unlikely. We really need a good think about this before we jump in and then repeat the same mistakes we have made in the past.
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