Click or flick across to see archival photos of floods dating back to 1919.
Yogi Bear - the unnoficial flood gauge of Wangaratta's Apex Park.
1975 - A lady tows children around in an inflatable boat during the South Albury floods.
Brown Brothers winery
1919 - Chiltern
1974 - Myrtleford
1975 - South Albury. Border Mail photographer Peter Merkesteyn preparing to work in the floods.
Frank gray visited residents of Albury nursing homes for 30 years, even rowing to get to them during the floods.
1996 - cycling path on Albury's Lincoln Causeway
1996 - Bungowannah
1996 - A farmer rescues his calf during the Murray River floods in Albury
1996 - Kathy Robinson rides her horse "Charlie" while Snuff the dog wades alongside during the Murray River floods in Albury.
1996 - North Wangaratta
1996 - Wangaratta
1996 - Wodonga
1998 - Gapsted
1998 - Gapsted
1998 - Henty Field Days. Visitors had to walk on planks to visit each stall.
1998 - Killara
1998 - King Valley
1998 - Mt Beauty
1998 - Wangaratta
1998 - Yackandandah Creek
1999 - Urana Road, Lavington
2012 - Wagga Wagga. Thousands of spiders surrounded homes in webs after trying to escape from the floods.
2012 - Wagga Wagga. Thousands of spiders surrounded homes in webs after trying to escape from the floods.
2000 - Wodonga
2003 - A car stuck at Mungabareena Reserve, Albury
2003 - Apex Park, Wangaratta
2005 - Chiltern
2005 - Rutherglen
2005 - Rutherglen
2005 - Apex Park, Wangaratta
2005 - Yackandandah
2010 - Benalla football oval
2010 - Benalla
2010 - Bright
2010 - Buckland Valley (near Bright)
2010 - Buckland Valley
2010 - Culcairn
2010 - Culcairn
2010 - Culcairn
2010 - Culcairn
2010 - Culcairn
2010 - Eurobin
2010 - Kiewa
2010 - Kergunyah
2010 - Kiewa
2010 - Myrtleford
2010 - Myrtleford
2010 - Myrtleford
2010 - Myrtleford
2010 - Myrtleford
2010 - Myrtleford
2010 - Myrtleford
2010 - Myrtleford
2010 - Myrtleford
2010 - Myrtleford
2010 - Myrtleford
2010 - Oxley
2010 - Oxley-Wangaratta Road
2010 - Shepparton
2010 - Shepparton
2010 - Shepparton
2010 - Tallangatta
2010 - The Rock
2010 - Apex Park, Wangaratta
2010 - Apex Park, Wangaratta
2010 - Wangaratta
2010 - Wangaratta
2010 - Wangaratta
2010 - Wangaratta
2010 - Wangaratta
2010 - Wangaratta
2010 - Whitfield
2010 - Whitfield
2010 - Whorouly cherry farm
2010 - Whorouly
2010 - Les Stone Park, Wodonga
2010 - Les Stone Park, Wodonga
2010 - Les Stone Park, Wodonga
2010 - Les Stone Park, Wodonga
2010 - Wodonga
2012 - Mungabareena Reserve, Albury
2012 - Chiltern
2012 - Congupna boys find yabbies in the flood
2012 - Corowa. Maurice Wilson with a stick gauge showing various flood levels over the years.
1986 - Holbrook
1986 - Holbrook
2012 - Holbrook
2012 - Holbrook-Culcairn Road
2012 - Nathalia
2012 - Numurkah
2012 - Property between The Rock and Lockhart
2011 - Rand
2012 - Urana
2012 - Urana
2012 - Urana
2012 - Urana
2012 - Urana
2012 - Urana
2012 - Urana
2012 - Urana
2012 - Walwa farmers use their jetski to check on cattle during the floods.
2012 - Apex Park, Wangaratta
2012 - Wangaratta
2012 - Les Stone Park, Wodonga
2012 - Les Stone Park, Wodonga
2012 - Les Stone Park, Wodonga
2012 - Yackandandah Creek
2012 - Yarrawonga
2012 - Yarrawonga
THEY say Australia is the land of droughts and flooding rains, and when it comes to the Border region that's certainly true.
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After a decade-long drought the heavens burst open last year.
But it's not the first or last heavy dowpour this region has experienced.
