The Big Wet circus has moved south, where it appears to be aided by untimely dam-releases. This is not close to the first time this has been done at the height of big-rain in Aus - with bad consequences. The net-effect, unsurprisingly, is to amplify a deluge into a disaster.

Check out this footage. From the current floods in mid-west NSW Looks like a raging brook during a typhoon in Taiwan, but it's not. It's portrayed in some media like it is from the rain - but there was only 100 mil - this is a dam-release - unleashed onto village residents.

Surely, whoever's (not) in control of dam-release decisions could look at the weather report. Big-rain coming - better let off some water before it hits.

No doubt there's some tangled bureaucratic reasoning for not doing that - but it's gotta be fixed - as a mitigating measure - quite a simple one that would avoid flooding people's homes with a destructive wall-of-water.

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/video/dramatic-video-of-wyangala-dam-spilling-230-000-megal...