Shi-lin District, downtown Taipei, has had 1800mm in the last 3-days(!) - and counting. It is causing flooding & landslides. Interestingly, no day off for Taipei.

Meanwhile Victoria is still flooded with its 150mm. It's kinda surreal - it hasn't rained for a couple of days but the flood waters are flowing down the major rivers, swamping towns as they go. My uncle is in one of those towns. He went under in '74 (few inches) but appears to be ok, just, this time.

Has come out that a flood prevention wall built to protect a racecourse resulted in a transference of water into the adjacent residential area in Melbourne. That's like the opposite of a flood-mitigation project.