Over the course of the weekend the level of the sand in the river can change and quickly. Its still dark out here but you see a lot of lights reflecting on the water. Were not seeing a flood but that can change with the amount of rain were expected to get. The river runs along several businesses in santa cruz to Business Owners very concerned about this. Emergency crews have been warning those Business Owners to remove any equipment and vehicles ahead of any potential flooding. City workers also cleaned out storm drains this week and gave out free sandbags. This isnt the only area bracing for possible impacts. This could be the biggest storm to hit the Santa Cruz Mountains in decades. This is above and beyond a normal storm. This is not like the usual rains that we see here. This is about twice as much as we got earlier this week. And we were there as horse stables in a flood prone area got a helping hand as animal owners moved horses to higher and safer ground. Below the Santa Cruz Mo
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A hike along Australia’s Great Dividing Range would reveal a series of plateaus and low mountain ranges roughly paralleling the coasts of Queensland, New South Wales, and Victoria. The mountain range extends some 2,300 miles (3,700 km) from the Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, to the Grampians in Victoria Bass Strait between Australia and Tasmania. In Queensland, the mountains average is 2,000–3,000 feet (600–900 meters) in elevation, but they rise as high as 5,000 feet (1,500 meters) in the Bellenden Ker and McPherson ranges and the Lamington Plateau. Farther south, a segment known as the Australian Alps, near the New South Wales–Victoria border, contains Australia’s highest peak, Mount Kosciuszko (7,310 feet [2,228 meters]). Since the Great Dividing Range is not very high compared to other mountain ranges, few animals specifically adapted to mountainous environments occur there. Tree kangaroos and bird-wing butterflies occur in the rainfore