East of the continent is affected by diluvian rains. Two hundred thousand people were evacuated and fourteen died.
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More than 200,000 people had to evacuate their homes in the state of New South Wales, on the Australian coast, to escape the muddy waters which, for more than a week, overflow from rivers and rivers on A band of several hundred kilometers along the coast of the Pacific. According to a temporary assessment, fourteen people died. This figure could rise while new rainfall are expected this weekend and that, everywhere, the land are already filled with water.
Friday 4th March, because of the risks of thunderstorms and flash floors, the state authorities of Queensland, fate north, have asked some of the population to stay at home. The day before, they had already called the parents of students to recover their children in schools as soon as possible. “It’s a serious situation. These are unprecedented times. I lived in Brisbane [the Capital of Queensland] practically all my life and I have never seen storms and floods like these,” declared the first state minister, Annastacia Palaszczuk.
It is in this area that the situation began to seriously deteriorate, from Sunday, February 27, when “rain bombs”, according to the expression of the chief of the government, have fallen from the sky. In just three days, Brisbane received 80% of its annual rainfall. The most affected areas recorded up to 400 millimeters of water within twenty-four hours. “The mud army”, the volunteers who were preparing to begin the work of clearing and cleaning, was summoned to wait until Saturday before intervening because of the “volatility” of weather conditions.
open sky discharge
In the state of New South Wales, the bad weather first touched the border region of Queensland and, in particular, the city of Lismore, where the inhabitants, surprised by the speed of the rise of waters, have sometimes had no choice but to move their roofs to get out of houses flooded until the second floor and wait for help that help can finally intervene. Helvis transactions have been delayed by the violence of the storm. Several people, having failed to extricate in time, died. Friday, the city, which had never known such a catastrophe, looked like a huge open pit discharge with its cluttered streets of rubbish, broken furniture and returned cars. Not far from there, the village of Mulrumbimby remained coupe of the world.
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