Feast or Famine

Can it be so long since I last ventured into the Blogosphere armed only with my rapier like wit? Hmmmm. Well here we are in another year and I for one have resolved not to make any more New Year resolutions which will only become self defeating prophecys.
Anyway, on to business. Here in the Yucky Country the natives have been plagued by floods of almost biblical proportions.
Many people will have seen footage of the terrible conditions the inhabitants of rural Queensland faced recently. As a passive observer of these scenes I could not help feeling somewhat goulish as I watched people being swept away and in one particularly awful scene a family trapped inside their four wheel drive as it seemed to float amid a torrent of swirling brown water which, as the camera pulled away, revealed itself to stretch as far as the eye could see. It was the close up shot of the despairing driver slumping onto the steering wheel that made me turn away in horror.
As usual the Australian media, particularly the more sensationalist elements have feasted on this, reveling in the spectacle of people losing their homes and in some cases their lives. This is a country of such strong contrasts, as many people affected by these floods have pointed out. For years the country has suffered from years and years of drought and finally when rain does come it is in such quantities that it overwhelms whole communities. In Australia it truly is a case of feast or famine.