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9:26 PM Wed 12 Jan 2011 GMT
It seems that whatever I write or have written for this week?s edition of Powerboat-World, it will pale into insignificance with the recovery task now facing the flood regions of Australia. An area of Australia in the States of Queensland, News South Wales and Victoria, according to one US report ?larger than Texas? , in fact much large than France and Germany combined has been underwater as torrential and unrelenting rain just kept tumbling down. Tens of thousands of people were evacuated, thousands of homes flooded, many severely damaged or destroyed and lives lost; ...


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by Bob Wonders





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