The Queensland coastal city of Townsville is in emergency shutdown after storms and a monsoon trough dumped extraordinary amounts of rain in the region, causing major rivers to reach peak flood levels.
 |
| Floodwaters at a home in Bluewater pushed a shipping container on its side. |
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk gave police evacuation powers and declared the area a disaster zone, announcing the closure of all schools and child care centres on Friday.
“We’ve had cyclones, bushfires, and now these one-in-100-year extreme flood events,’’ a government spokesman said.
“It went from a normal north Queensland wet season into something extraordinary.”
Record rainfall in recent days is set to continue as police warn isolated areas around Townsville “could get falls of up to 400 millimetres a day”.
Read The New Daily story - “Dozens evacuated in Queensland floods as Townsville declared a disaster zone.”
No comments:
Post a Comment