Fixing broken flood gauges is important. But most of us don't evacuate even when we know the water is coming
- Written by: Mel Taylor, Associate Professor, Macquarie University
Devastating floods have hit community after community on Australia’s eastern seaboard over the last three years. Weather systems were dynamic and difficult to forecast.
What made the impact worse still was the fact that many of our flood gauges were unreliable or broken. In some cases, residents simply didn’t know the extent of the...
