Reference :- As with the fires , there is apparently nothing unprecedented about the floods .

Reference :-   Andy Bolt has pointed out that climate change is just the new fad .

It sure is flooding here in  Kooralya Andy .  But you will be pleased to hear we never use the word "unprecedented ", which always reveals a lack of perspective .  Even if we haven't seen a worse flood during our own short lifetime,  doubtless some day in the past a diprotodon was swept to its doom as Kooralya creek burst it banks .   You won't catch us using hyperbole here . Not in a million years .

My son ,Ken junior,  can't wait for all the discussion about how we have had worse floods before , and is looking forward to seeing lots of tragic historic footage of people in sepia coloured clothes
getting their horses bogged or watching their hut get swept away .

Of course the insurance council has declared no less than 6 national emergencies in the last five months , and is now bleating on about record rainfall.   But that is just the usual rhetoric they use in the hope of gleaning sympathy .  I feel sorry for all those thousands of citizens in Sydney without power for days , but some of the media carries on as though this is " unprecedented " and the  hyperbole is annoying .        It's like watching somebody on the Titanic panic because a little  water is flooding into their cabin  , when the cabins  at the other end of the ship became completely submerged an hour ago. 

My son Ken junior , can't wait for what he wittily refers to as " the historic battle "  when Sky News presents all the evidence to prove  that , historically , the floods and blackouts have been worse in the past , so no need to blame climate change .  Personally I don't know what to think ,  you can't trust the media these days and maybe they were also dodgy , and exaggerated disasters , back in the days of yore .     I guess we will never know.

 Anyway Andy , Ken junior has done a bit of preliminary research which you are welcome to use . Though the current blackouts might have a few thousand people annoyed , he has discovered that from  July 1798 to July 1799  all of Sydney was without power . That is an entire year . Makes a few days now look far from "unprecedented " doesn't it ?      Keep up the good work  . 

 Your comrade , Ken