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This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I'm John Batchel going to New South Wales, Australia,

where it's fall, autumn, and that means

there is turmoil in the climate. We go always to Queensland because Queensland has the weather,

meaning lots of rain, lots of flooding, cyclones. Jeremy, a very good day to you. Townsville on the coast north of Brisbane.

I see photographs of cars pushing through water up to the hood.

Where did this storm come from?

What is it?

You know, John, yes, Townsville again is one of our far north towns in Queensland.

And the simple answer is that this storm is actually the, You know, John, yes, Townsville again is one of our far north towns in Queensland.

And the simple answer is that this storm is actually the remnants, the leftovers from last week's cyclone,

or I should say last week and a half ago, Cyclone Albert, which came across the Queensland coastline,

turned into a massive tropical storm, dumped rain all across the region, and unfortunately,

is still having enough power in its system to actually continue to rain on poor old Townsville

there. And the reason this is very, very unique is that typically when a cyclone comes

across, once the cyclone's done, there's maybe a few days of rain and a little bit of flooding and then it disappears.

But because this particular cyclone turned into a tropical storm just as it hit the coastline of basically Queensland,

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