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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| over 2 years ago
Floodwaters are slowly receding in Chinchilla and Dalby and that is hampering efforts to begin the clean-up in those towns. The focus for authorities now is also how to resupply the region, with Dalby, Chinchilla, Miles and smaller communities...
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The Age
| over 2 years ago
Western Downs Mayor Ray Brown said the Myall Creek peaked on Tuesday night at 3.49 metres, and that it looked unlikely to push above the predicted top of 3.8 metres. "It is pleasing that the water did not reach the peak we first feared, however we...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| over 2 years ago
Myall Creek peaked in Dalby at 3.5 metres, slightly lower than the peak that hit the town two days ago. Two hundred homes are inundated and the water is slowly receding, but the town is now facing problems with its water supplies. Residents are still...
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The Daily Telegraph
| over 2 years ago
Chinchilla are being flooded, as waters rise above the expected peak of 7.5m. The flood peak for Charley's Creek has been revised up to 7.8 metres which is much bigger than the flood we had 10 days ago," he said. "The water is still rising and we...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| over 2 years ago
Sixty trucks are in a line stretching from the top of the range back into the city, waiting for the highway to Brisbane to reopen. Driver Eric says he has no idea when he will be able to get down. "We just sort of sit here and say maybe this...
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The Age
| over 2 years ago
District disaster coordinator, Inspector Terry Kajewski, said Myall Creek at Dalby, west of Brisbane, was almost 3.5 metres on Wednesday morning and slowly rising. "This will continue through the day," he said in an audio release. Advertisement:...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| over 2 years ago
Queensland State Disaster Coordinator Ian Stewart said eight evacuation centres were currently open in the city with more residents expected as the Bremer River rises to an expected peak of 22 metres on Wednesday. Brisbane River had broken its banks...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| over 2 years ago
Town snake-infested after quarry bursts Updated January 12, 2011 08:47:00 Hundreds of people are stranded in the southern Queensland town of Fernvale after a quarry broke overnight, flooding homes...Meanwhile, in the southern Darling Downs town of...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| over 2 years ago
Wendy Pugh January 12, 2011 Submerged ... coalmine trucks in a flooded Port Curtis plant equipment sales yard. Australian Cotton Shippers Association has warned. ''We have probably already lost about 300,000 bales but that could go up; it just...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| over 2 years ago
Several towns in southern Queensland are facing more flooding and for some it will be worse than before. The swollen Condamine-Balonne system is expected to rise further, putting major population centres in the Western Downs towns of Warwick, Dalby...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| over 2 years ago
Floodwater from further east is expected to arrive in the next few days. Mayor Donna Stewart says she has spoken to the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) and it is inevitable the town will flood again. "We were actually starting to relax yesterday but...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| over 2 years ago
A community meeting is being held in the town, west of Brisbane, to discuss evacuation procedures after authorities warned power and water to the town would be cut ahead of another massive flood expected on Wednesday. The town's entire population of...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| over 2 years ago
About 12 homes were inundated yesterday when floodwaters rose in Quart Pot creek and police expect the water will rise again today. Residents in the Southern Downs towns of Allora and Killarney are also on alert as heavy rain continues to lash the...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| over 2 years ago
Residents were forced to flee their homes just after Christmas when the Condamine River peaked at a record 15 metres. They returned to the town last week but authorities are expecting the river to rise to 15 metres again over the next two days. Mayor...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| over 2 years ago
About 200 homes in the regional hub of Dalby have been flooded above their floorboards. Local mayor Ray Brown says 190 people spent the night in evacuation centres. Myall Creek fell slightly overnight but is expected to rise again after heavy...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| over 2 years ago
Queensland is facing a multi-billion dollar infrastructure catastrophe, an opposition frontbencher has warned the federal government. "We will need a huge effort from the government to assist local government and the state government to rebuild the...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| over 2 years ago
Seven people are dead after flash floods yesterday hit the Darling Downs town of Toowoomba and several smaller townships in the Lockyer Valley. Four people died in Toowoomba, two women and a child have died at Grantham and nearby at Withcott police...
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The Age
| over 2 years ago
Western Downs Mayor Ray Brown said the waters peaked as darkness fell on Monday night at 3.74 metres. "We had 200 houses and 2000 allotments inundated, the houses had water above the floor level, and there are 750 houses still without power," he told...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| over 2 years ago
North-eastern NSW is also on flood watch, with major flooding possible in the Richmond, Wilsons and Brunswick valleys. The State Emergency Service said flooding on the Bellinger River at Thora had isolated 500 people on remote properties. Rising...
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The Age
| over 2 years ago
Story continues below There are fears several others may have perished with dozens of cars washed away in Toowoomba and the Lockyer Valley, and some valley homes washed from their foundations. Rescue missions continued on Monday night, as crews tried...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| over 2 years ago
Sodden Queensland continues to battle its week-long flood crisis, with one town facing its second inundation since Christmas, residents forced to evacuate in several areas and waters receding ever so slowly in other drenched cities. Toowoomba in the...
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The Age
| over 2 years ago
Story continues below Police said more details will be given when known. Western Downs mayor Ray Brown told AAP 140mm of rain has fallen in one hour in Charleys Creek which runs through Chinchilla. "We know Charleys Creek had risen 1.6m in an hour,"...
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The New Zealand Herald
| over 2 years ago
Flash floods swept through a southern Queensland community today, overturning cars and flinging a van against several trees as relentless rains brought more misery to a region battling its worst flooding in decades. Queensland state police said they...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| over 2 years ago
At least two people are missing and dozens of rescues are taking place in Toowoomba after torrential rain swamped the Darling Downs city this afternoon, causing flash flooding and landslides. Sodden Queensland continues to battle its week-long flood...
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The Age
| over 2 years ago
Western Downs Mayor Ray Brown said the town, west of Brisbane, was cut in two by floodwaters and residents were braced for the Myall Creek to peak at 3.8 metres before nightfall. That's higher than the 3.5 metre peak seen just two weeks ago, when 100...
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The Age
| over 2 years ago
Story continues below "We are expecting it higher than that," Western Downs Mayor Ray Brown told AAP on Monday. "We've just had a police helicopter in the air, checking to just verify the automatic (stream level) readers up north. "We have a lot of...
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Adelaide Now
| over 2 years ago
At Dalby, west of Brisbane, residents in at-risk areas have been told to evacuate with the Myall Creek expected to again flood homes after an overnight deluge. Meanwhile, residents of Brisbane, the Sunshine Coast and surrounding areas have been...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| over 2 years ago
Queensland's flood crisis has escalated in the state's south, with the town of Dalby facing fresh threats of rising floodwaters. About 100 homes were evacuated about midnight as the town's Myall Creek rose rapidly as heavy rain fell. The town is...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| over 2 years ago
The floodwaters are threatening 100 homes and businesses and the creek is expected to peak at 3.5 metres by midday on Monday. Advertisement: Story continues below It is the second time in weeks that about 150 residents of the Darling Downs town have...
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The Australian
| over 2 years ago
Following a weekend downpour, the coastal towns of Gympie and Maryborough on the Mary River, 250km north of Brisbane, became the latest communities beset by floodwaters yesterday. Downtown Maryborough was still under water last night while 20...
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Channel NewsAsia
| over 2 years ago
Heavy rain falling on Australia's flooded north-east could have a "dramatic" impact, officials warned Sunday, stretching already swollen rivers and creeks to their limit. Queensland police commissioner Alistair Dawson said severe weather lashing the...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| over 2 years ago
They say it is raining heavily in the area and they are working out how best to search for the man...Tags: disasters-and-accidents , accidents , missing-person , qld , woodford-4514 Search ABC News Featured Video
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Seattle Times
| over 2 years ago
Australia A swollen river submerged bridges and inundated homes and stores Sunday in another town in Australia's sodden Queensland state, where more heavy rain meant little respite from the country's worst flooding in decades. Maryborough became the...
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The Hindu
| over 2 years ago
Downpours Sunday in already flooded parts of Queensland prompted flood warnings for more Australian towns in a rolling crisis that has affected an area the size of France and Germany combined. In 1999 the town of Maryborough was inundated when the...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| over 2 years ago
Gympie has been placed on flood alert in south-east Queensland, as Maryborough braces for a flood peak of just under 8.5 metres today. With heavy rainfall in the catchment again last night and this morning, local authorities say there could be a...
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The New Zealand Herald
| over 2 years ago
The rising Mary River has started to claim businesses and homes in the southeastern Queensland town of Maryborough ahead of an expected 8.4 metre flood peak. Residents report it was raining heavily on Sunday morning, after more than 150 millimetres...
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Xtra News
| over 2 years ago
New Zealand's civil defence team today began work helping flood-ravaged victims recover in the small Queensland town of Condamine. The 15-strong team from the Ministry of Civil Defence and Emergency Management arrived in Queensland yesterday and...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| over 2 years ago
The bureau's senior forecaster Brett Harrison says a severe weather warning is current for people in south-east Queensland, Wide Bay and the Burnett districts. He says an upper-level low off the central coast and a low-level trough off southern...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| over 2 years ago
The girl was swimming with friends when she disappeared in the creek at the Cherbourg Aboriginal Community late this afternoon. A spokeswoman for the Department of Emergency Services, Alyce Valentine, says the girl was in her early twenties. She said...
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Fox
| over 2 years ago
Australia Almost a foot (300 millimeters) of rain in just a few hours renewed flood fears in Australia's already waterlogged Queensland state Saturday, sending a surging river over its banks and into another large town. Officials said about only 20...
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AP Online
| over 2 years ago
Australia (AP) — Almost a foot (300 millimeters) of rain in just a few hours renewed flood fears in Australia's already waterlogged Queensland state Saturday, sending a surging river over its banks and into another large town.
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