Towns In South-East Australia Prepare For Flooding
Published on January 18th, 2011 02:15
Published in SINGAPORE
Published in SINGAPORE
MELBOURNE (Australia) - KNEE-DEEP water inundated communities in south-eastern Australia on Tuesday as electricity companies warned that further cuts there were likely if more power stations were submerged by floodwaters. The floods reached into the state of Victoria at the weekend following weeks of flooding that ravaged Queensland to the north and swamped a major city. In Victoria, the city of Horsham was keeping a close eye on its Wimmera River, expected to peak later on Tuesday but already overflowing into the streets and putting 600 homes at risk.
'You can't control nature totally, but I think to the extent we had about three or four days warning and we have an experienced emergency team, I think we're going as well as we can,' Mayor Michael Ryan said of the sandbagging and evacuations conducted in recent days. Horsham official David Eltringham said the town was expecting 'a one-in-a-100-year flood.'
More than 3,500 people have evacuated their homes in north-central Victoria state, with 51 towns and 1,500 properties already affected by rising waters. -- AP
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