{"id":165,"date":"2010-03-02T20:37:59","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T10:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/?p=165"},"modified":"2015-02-23T15:58:19","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T05:58:19","slug":"floods-in-far-western-queensland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/floods-in-far-western-queensland\/","title":{"rendered":"Floods in far western Queensland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of far western &#8211; southern\/central Queensland has an average rainfall of around 6&#8243; (150mm), but in Australia average rainfall figures are usually misleading. In many years Queensland&#8217;s channel country only receives 1-2&#8243; (25-50mm) and in other years they get 10-15&#8243; or more (250-375mm). Cattle stations in the channel country have had a fair old hiding over the last decade or so, with almost every year being way below average &#8211; and what rain did fall, fell in a number of very small amounts. I.e. next to useless, for growing plants. It&#8217;s just the occasional floodwater coming down creeks and rivers from the north and north east, that has kept these cattle stations functioning.<\/p>\n<p>This year is a catch-up year. Check out these amazing photographs taken on Morney Plains Station, on Agmates. It&#8217;s a sea of water. Even in very arid country, it pays to always put buildings on legs. Here&#8217;s hoping all the cattle made it onto sand ridges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of far western &#8211; southern\/central Queensland has an average rainfall of around 6&#8243; (150mm), but in Australia average rainfall figures are usually misleading. In many years Queensland&#8217;s channel country only receives 1-2&#8243; (25-50mm) and in other years they get 10-15&#8243; or more (250-375mm). Cattle stations in the channel country have had a fair old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,8],"tags":[82],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4187,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions\/4187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}