Herbert River/2010-2011 Queensland Floods

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    ““There was a Prince of old
    At Salem dwelt, who lived with good increase
    Of flock and fold.

    He sweetly lived; yet sweetness did not save
    His life from foes.”
    —George Herbert (1593–1633)

    “Other roads do some violence to Nature, and bring the traveler to stare at her, but the river steals into the scenery it traverses without intrusion, silently creating and adorning it, and is as free to come and go as the zephyr.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on rock.”
    —Bible: New Testament, Matthew 7:25.