Ooh boy howdy, when they get one of those gullywhumpers come around the horn on them, it does make quite a mess of things. The two times I sat through a nor'wester that made it in past Alice Springs, that was almost as bad as one of them there west Texas mid-August thunderstorms. It really churns through Brisbane quick and hard. It doesn't happen often, as they usually turn out east once they hit the reef.

Some of those houses they plopped out on the hillsides out west heading toward Toowoomba would slop down the hill in a flooding rain just like them houses out in LA you see on the news.

I gotta think the fire situation would be worse, though. Gum tree tend to explode like dynamite when they get lit.