Volunteers have placed 195,000 sandbags in and around Echuca along with an additional levee wall. Follow latest updates
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Let’s go to NSW now, where residents in parts of the outback town of Moree have been told to evacuate. An evacuation centre has been set up at the Moree PCYC.
The NSW SES said that heavy rainfalls from the storms that hit Queensland, NSW and Victoria in the past 24 hours have caused river rises along the Gwydir and Mehi rivers, which may reach the heights of the March 2021 flood.
As the people whose houses were swallowed by the Maribyrnong River dragged their ruined belongings into the street this week, until the piles of junk towered overhead, marquees were being erected downstream at Flemington racecourse.
The track, an emerald polished to a spectacular green, was saved by a 2.5-metre high flood wall, only days before the start of Australia’s premier racing carnival.
Continue reading…Volunteers have placed 195,000 sandbags in and around Echuca along with an additional levee wall. Follow latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastLet’s go to NSW now, where residents in parts of the outback town of Moree have been told to evacuate. An evacuation centre has been set up at the Moree PCYC.The NSW SES said that heavy rainfalls from the storms that hit Queensland, NSW and Victoria in the past 24 hours have caused river rises along the Gwydir and Mehi rivers, which may reach the heights of the March 2021 flood.As the people whose houses were swallowed by the Maribyrnong River dragged their ruined belongings into the street this week, until the piles of junk towered overhead, marquees were being erected downstream at Flemington racecourse.The track, an emerald polished to a spectacular green, was saved by a 2.5-metre high flood wall, only days before the start of Australia’s premier racing carnival. Continue reading…