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TheGardenNymph t1_j3xqe2m wrote

This is part of the desert cycle in many parts of Australia, the landscape and ecosystem is used to heavy rains up north flowing down for hundreds of kilometres along existing river beds, many towns expect these yearly flood cycles that bring large scale animal migration, it's been happening for hundreds of years. Australia is not California.

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FrankTankly t1_j3xo9q4 wrote

No new infections reported in 42 days, which is twice the maximum incubation period of the Ebola virus.

Of course it’s impossible to be 100% certain there aren’t infections that haven’t been caught, but it seems reasonable to declare the outbreak over with the information they have.

Source: the linked article.

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Blargcar t1_j3xjvbx wrote

Because Los Angeles and southern California had freeways before a lot of the country. Instead of numbers at first they had names like: The San Diego freeway, the Pasadena freeway, the long beach freeway. The San Diego freeway became the 405, Pasadena became 110 and long beach became 710, along with Ventura freeway (101).

So people were used to saying THE then the name. Then when they became numbers they were used to saying THE then the number. It makes sense when you think of it and know the history.

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