With flood waters bearing down on your home, would you stay to defend it, or would you go?

In the wake of the tragic loss of life in Queensland’s flash foods last year, it is, for many, difficult to grasp why this week 90 per cent of the population of a tiny town called Hay, a mere dot on a vast, flat floodplain in the Riverina of NSW, are defying desperate pleas from the State Emergency Service to evacuate their homes. Continue reading Homes under threat →