Floods And Knock-On Effects

[GTR-N1]

* Insurance on cars might go up perhaps after so many were destroyed by floods? (House insurance too?)

* Cheap cars 'new' and 'used' might filter through from flood damaged areas perhaps? (Requiring caution when buying?)

* Demand for cars might go up in flood damaged areas perhaps after so many were lost through water damage? (Time for you to sell?)

[Psymon]

Non automotive flood related effect: Everything smells once the water recedes!

[GTR-N1]

^^^ and I was worried for the farmers that there'd be a locust plague; but the floods beat them to it - some of them... sigh...

[Psymon]

A lot of farmers have lost big big money in destroyed crops due to the rain though. If it's not one thing it's another.

[Bliksem]

Im from the Riverina, the saddest story I've heard so far was about a farmer this week... after 10 years of drought and now all this rain which has already ruined most of the wheat crops, he was harvesting and got bogged. Some people came and pulled him out, then shortly after they left he got bogged again. I guess it what too much for him after years and years of disappointment so he decided to take his own life with a rifle.

[GTR-N1]

Instead of the Labor Gov't giving away "ice creams" to all of us, I think it should subsidise the farmers via low interest loans.

And heaven knows we need infrastructure in the form of dams - but hey, the Greens are against that eh?

Decentralisation was never followed through by Keating or the Libs - and that was one of Labor's good policies under Hawke.