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Residents have begun battening down homes and businesses with Tropical Cyclone Kirrily forecast to cross the Australian northeast coast on Thursday, bringing destructive winds and flooding rain.
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The 2019 Townsville flood was a major flood event that occurred in the city of Townsville and surrounding areas, on the eastern coast of Queensland, Australia. [1] Townsville has endured around 20 major flooding events since colonial settlement in the 1860s, but the 2019 event was one of the worst natural disasters to ever impact the region. [ 2 ]
The dam was an attempt to address Townsville's dual water concerns--abundance and scarcity--and added to the city's long history of attempting to tame the natural environment. [ 4 ] In the 1980s, the second stage of the dam necessitated a deviation of the Flinders Highway and Mount Isa railway line (which previously ran straight north-south) to ...
Editor's Note: This page is a summary of news on Hurricane Helene for Saturday, Sept. 28. For the latest news, view our live updates file for Sunday, Sept. 29. Dozens were killed. Hospital-goers ...
Townsville was declared a state of emergency that night. [4] Rain had eased a little by the 11th but still had some heavy rain pass through, Ex-Cyclone Sid, a weak surface low was still just to the north of Townsville during Monday 12 January and by midday the trough had redeveloped again and heavy rain moved into the city for the rest of the ...
“This was a storm-related death,” Capt. John Lipcsak, a spokesperson for the fire department, told USA TODAY. 'Catastrophic, life-threatening flooding' predicted in Western North Carolina
Prime minister Anthony Albanese announces financial support for flood victims in Victoria as Murchison experiences moderate flooding with the Goulburn River peaking at 10.47 metres, with an expected peak of 10.4 metres at Shepparton on 13 January. [34] [35]