The eastern states of queensland and new south wales have been hit again, this time by severe flooding. Our state is tearing down the barrel of a one in one thousand year flood disaster. Floods are common in the region, but not at these levels. It's hard to overstate just how much rain has fallen along the east coast of australia over the past few weeks. And what specifically happened at lismore, so the flood waters started, i properly, in listore, in the middle of the night.