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tisdag, januari 04, 2011

Swollen river about to peak, more rain on way

brisbanetimes.com.au:

With the flooded Fitzroy River due to peak in Rockhampton today, sodden Queensland is expecting more heavy downpours over its south-eastern corner this week.

And the bad news does not stop there. The clean-up is yet to begin in earnest, the damage bill has not been properly calculated and rain is unlikely to let up for the next three months, particularly south of Bundaberg.
'The thing we are all very fearful of is that we've only just started our wet season: we've got three months of cyclone season to go,'' Brent Finlay, the president of the rural lobby group AgForce, said.

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