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What the heck. Felt like a freaking cyclone just hit this thread.

Yeah the maps are useful but not necessarily where the storms are right? You can have a storm in one area but it's ultimately where the run-off is. The 15 years I lived in Brisbane, basically most of my time was spent in the south east - Mt Gravatt, MacGregor, Sunnybank, Sunnybank Hills...

To be fair, I did start my very first post with "Where do you people live anyway?" I'm trying to ascertain where this is actually happening, which is kind of important as an investor... because time and time again the storms come and time after time I'm never affected, so this leads me to think...

I have 4 properties in Brisbane and I travel there about 6-8 times a year. I also know many other investors up there and have many friends and family, and every time I ask they say "what storm?". Even during the 2011 flood not a single person I knew was affected. I'm not trying to be an ***, I'm...

I wasn't aware of this part of it. I guess it's like the boy who cried wolf. At the end of Jan there was supposed to be some really serious weather. The media had my Sydney friend freaking out over his investment there. I went up to visit and thought what the heck is this, it's just a bad...

exactly my point

Where do you people live anyway? I lived in Brisbane for 15 years, and every year or two there was an epic storm coming that was all over the news, and every year it turned out to be just some bad rain and no more. Sure you have the occasional freak (2011), but pretty much every year the...