Sounds, reads, looks on TV, like Queensland is hanging tough, working together, cooperating, and pooling resources to protect those most in danger. The bottom line is that more than one source near Cairn is claiming there have been no fatalities. Another report is that more are coming out of shelters than went in by virtue of at least one lady giving birth.

It would be something of a novelty to have no fatalities. People die. Even in good times it is a constant. In a major crisis people with heart conditions vapor-lock, asthmatics have attacks, medications get forgotten, people panic and run each other over. The death count running backward during a disaster would be truly remarkable.