Video Report: A severe thunderstorm threatening flash floods has been forecast for the already badly inundated Australian state of Queensland.
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New Storm Forecast for Queensland
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Cyclone Heads for West Australia
On December - 31 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS
A flood warning for Western Australia’s West Kimberley region has been lifted but the Pilbara coast has been put on cyclone alert as a tropical low approaches the coast.
The low is moving quickly across the North-West Kimberley bringing rainfall approaching 100 mm.
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Australia Floods 200,000 Stranded
On December - 31 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS
BRISBANE, Australia – Military aircraft dropped supplies to towns cut off by floods in northeastern Australia as the prime minister promised new assistance Friday to the 200,000 people affected by waters covering an area larger than France and Germany combined.
Residents were stocking up on food or evacuating their homes as rising rivers inundated or isolated 22 towns in the state of Queensland.
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Disease Fears in Flooded Towns
On December - 30 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS
Queensland authorities say they are increasingly concerned about the spread of disease and supplying food to thousands of people affected by record floods.
Thousands of residents in Emerald, Bundaberg, Rockhampton and other towns are likely to be evacuated from their homes over the next five days as floodwaters continue to rise.
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New Cyclone Could Hit Australia
On December - 29 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS
The Bureau of Meteorology is warning there is a strong chance of a cyclone developing in Western Australia’s north-west on New Year’s Day.
A tropical low is currently located around Katherine in the Northern Territory and is expected to move west in the coming days.
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Town Deserted as Waters Rise
On December - 29 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS
Residents are evacuating their homes across low-lying parts of Queensland as floodwaters continue to rise in southern and central areas of the state.
Bundaberg, Emerald and Rockhampton remain the focus of attention for emergency authorities dealing with rising floodwaters across Queensland.
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More Evacuations in Queensland
On December - 28 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS
Queensland towns are bracing for more misery today as residents in deluged communities continue to be evacuated and flood waters continue to rise.
Rain is clearing from sodden central and southern Queensland but water is continuing to flow into already swollen rivers and tributaries and the situation across parts of the state is set to worsen again this week.
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Queensland Towns Are Under Water
On December - 28 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS
Entire towns are under water and hundreds of residents are being forced to leave their homes as flooding continues across Queensland.
The State Government has declared a disaster in three towns – Theodore, Chinchilla and Dalby – where the worst flooding in half a century has inundated properties.
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NSW Floods Force Evacuations
On December - 26 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS
Twelve people have been evacuated from their homes at Eugowra in central western New South Wales due to major flooding as warnings are issued around the state.
The State Emergency Service (SES) says 10 houses and businesses have been inundated with water from the Mandagery Creek, which peaked at just above nine metres early this morning.
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Devastating Floods Hit W Australia
On December - 20 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS
Authorities say floods in Western Australia’s Gascoyne region have caused widespread damage to crops and pastoral stations.
A station owner at Mooloo Downs, more than 200 kilometres east of Carnarvon, expects to have lost a significant number of cattle.
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Aus: Record Floods Hit Carnarvon
On December - 17 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS
The town of Carnarvon is on track to break its annual rainfall average in less than two days.
It has already broken records for the wettest day and the wettest month.
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Thousands of Fish Die in Floods
On December - 13 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS
Australia: Flooding of the Fitzroy River is being blamed for the death of at least 6,000 fish near Rockhampton in central Queensland
The fish, including up to 1,500 barramundi, were found in the Woolwash Lagoon on the city’s southern outskirts.
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Hundreds Evacuated in NSW
On December - 5 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS
Residents in regional New South Wales have spent an anxious night waiting and preparing for the worst as flooding continues.
Almost a dozen shires have been declared natural disaster areas and flood warnings remain on 13 rivers.
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NSW: Evacuations, Disaster Declared
On December - 3 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS
Dozens of people are being evacuated while thousands more are preparing to go, as floodwaters continue to rise across the central and north-west of New South Wales.
Some 23 people in the central western town of Eugowra are being ordered to move out of their homes.
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NSW Disaster Zone Spreads
On October - 17 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS
The New South Wales Government has declared more areas in the Riverina and the state’s south-west natural disaster zones as conditions ease in flood-affected areas.
State Emergency Service volunteers are monitoring towns and communities south of Wagga Wagga that border Billabong Creek after sandbagging properties in the area, but they say the worst of the flooding is over.
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Extreme weather batters Australia
On October - 17 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS
Video Report: Australians evacuate towns in southwest after rains cause flooding.
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