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The cyclone-watcher who forecast the Great Brisbane Flood of '74 reveals: "Why the weather is getting so dangerous"
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1986
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Description:Reprinted from The Weekend Australian Magazine 3, February 8-9, 1986 issue.
When the great flood hit Brisbane in 1974, inundating 10,000 homes and drowning 15 people, I immediately went looking for just one man: a bloke called Arch Shields.
Two years earlier Arch Shields - then long-time director of the Bureau of Meteorology in Queensland - had told me I should write a story on how Brisbane was destined to be hit by a devastating flood. I had been to see him because my editor wanted a story on cyclones, so I thought it strange that he kept talking about floods.
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