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Hospital evacuated as Australia hit by heavy flooding

POSTED BY: NIKI2
UPDATED: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 16:24
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013 7:57 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


Je-zus, Magons, first the fires, now this! Never seems to end for you poor Ozzies lately, does it?
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Heavy flooding in Australia caused by torrential rains has forced mass evacuations from towns along the country's east coast, with critically-ill patients and newborns from one hospital being airlifted to safety.

The floods, which came in the aftermath of Tropical Cyclone Oswald, have killed four people so far, including a three-year-old boy who died after being hit by a falling tree in Brisbane, Australia's third largest city.

Bundaberg, a coastal town about 360 kilometers (220 miles) northwest of Brisbane, was particularly hard hit, with more than 2,000 homes inundated with water and a similar number of people evacuated, said mayor Mal Forman.

"We're like a little island. We have water either side of us and the water is flowing rapidly," Forman told CNN by telephone from his office in Bundaberg's town center.

Evacuations have also been ordered in the town of Grafton in New South Wales, about 600 kilometers (370 miles) north of Sydney.

More areas are expected to face flooding later in the week as swollen rivers and tributaries make their way toward the coast.LOTS more at http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/29/world/asia/australia-queensland-flooding
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013 8:10 AM

CHRISISALL


Not good. Best wishes to those down under.

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Wednesday, January 30, 2013 8:16 AM

BYTEMITE


Australia - where everything imaginable tries to kill you.

Good luck guys.

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Wednesday, January 30, 2013 1:52 PM

RIONAEIRE

Beir bua agus beannacht


Glad its not close to Magon's, but wishing those who are experiencing it safety and relief soon.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

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Wednesday, January 30, 2013 4:24 PM

MAGONSDAUGHTER


not for nuffing that this little poem endures.

I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror
The wide brown land for me!

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