BEFORE and AFTER photos of the DROUGHT

[ramblingboy42]

These photos are amazing and just show much effect the drought has on the land.
Before and after: How the drought is biting in regional Australia - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) (http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-12-17/queensland-drought-photos-before-after/7035610)

[Pickles2]

Awesome,.........and frightening.
Pickles.

[Eevo]

to be fair, they are comparing years of over the top rainfall to drought years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010%E2%80%9311_La_Ni%C3%B1a_Event

The 2010-11 La Ni?a was one of the strongest La Nina events on record. It caused Australia to experience its wettest September on record in 2010, and its second wettest year on record in 2010.

[Sitec]

Very frightening.. All that water gone, temps the highest they've been in years... Alarm bells me thinks!

[Cobber]

It's all cyclic. That said I don't envy anyone on the land that has to endure long droughts

[bob10]

If Israel can do it, why can't we?

How Israel beat the drought | The Times of Israel (http://www.timesofisrael.com/how-israel-beat-the-drought/)

[Bearman]

The frightening thing is that we haven't seen a really bad drought yet in the time the white man has been on this continent! From coral sampling on the great barrier reef it has been ascertained that the Burdekin River in nth Qld didn't flow for 10 years around 1770 when Cook visited here. We have never known this river NOT to flow!! Hopefully this drought will not be a repeat of the above.

[bob10]

An interactive map, the most lingering memory for me, growing up in Central Qld, is the smell of rotting sheep.

Interactive: 100 years of drought in Australia - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) (http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-02-26/100-years-of-drought/5282030)

[stealth]

...of droughts and flooding rains.... It's Australia. It's what it does.

Why is anyone ever surprised?

The last big drought went for fourteen odd years and Melbourne got down to 25% water reserve or so. That's a quarter full and then it broke and the dams filled up. Now that we have this mega monster desal plant sitting idle doing nothing it will be interesting to see how long before the screaming panicking scaremongers start demanding we kick it in the guts to save us from the impending drought induced doom.

....we'll all be rooned....

[Ausfree]

I love a sunburnt country..
A land of sweeping plains....
Of rugged mountain ranges....
Of droughts and flooding rains... ( with apologies to Dorothea Mackellar)

Yep, it's Australia and we have to love the country for all its natural beauty........still being a farmer is a tough call though......I wouldn't like to do it.

[weeds]

It's all cyclic. That said I don't envy anyone on the land that has to endure long droughts


I with you on this one.....

I get so annoyed when people whinge about the price of fresh food.

[bob10]

Sometimes the people on the land can't see a way out.

Your say: Living through drought - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) (http://www.abc.net.au/news/interactives/your-say-living-through-drought/)