<
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/mar/19/queensland-floods-birdsville-bedourie-towns-cut-off-for-weeks>
"To many city dwellers, becoming trapped for weeks where you live would be a
terrifying prospect. Not so for the remote outback towns of Birdsville and
Bedourie on the edge of the Munga-Thirri Simpson desert. Five weeks after
flooding cut off roads into the towns, the residents’ biggest complaint is that
the local store is down to two flavours of chips.
Since early February, the rural Queensland communities which border both the
Northern Territory and South Australia, have only been accessible by plane.
Flooding has turned the orange outback green-blue and, with further heavy
rainfall and flooding forecast in the coming days, the dirt roads aren’t
expected to open for another month.
Luckily the towns – which have a combined population of about 260 – are pretty
used to isolation."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
--
mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
