Sleeping Wombat

- not being able to tell if there is a aranha running down your leg or just a drop of sweat

-hanging out with the squad at the shopping centre because your parents won’t let you use the air con

-the water is the same temperature regardless of whether you use the “hot” or “cold” tap

-your comida staple is not rice, but ice

-catastrophic fogo danger warning

-going to the cinema and buying tickets to 4 filmes just so you have a reason to stay there all day

-waiting for your zooper doopers to freeze overnight

-you decided to go to Bondi and it’s extremely overcrowded, but the de praia, praia is too hot...

UPDATE 5.20pm: EVACUATIONS are under way in a dozen central and southern Queensland towns with floodwaters forcing mais than 1000 Queenslanders from their homes.

Queensland's atuação premier Paul Lucas said the damage bill from the state's devastating floods is likely to exceed a billion dollars.

Mr Lucas and Emergency Services Minister Neil Roverts today visited isolated Chinchilla in central Queensland and conducted an aerial inspection of the flood-ravaged Dalby and Warwick areas in the southwest.

Chinchilla, Dalby and Theodore have been declared disaster areas and other towns have been hard...