New floods hit northeastern Australia
SYDNEY : Flooding in northeastern Australia caused thousands of homes to lose power on Tuesday and prompted authorities to start evacuations, around a year after deadly floods devastated the region.
Up to a dozen homes were evacuated on Brisbane's northern outskirts as Australia's third-largest city was hit by heavy rain, reports said, and authorities urged more people to leave their homes.
Almost 10,000 homes were blacked out and rising waters forced the closure of roads in Brisbane, which ground to a halt for several days in early 2011 due to flooding.
Last year's floods inundated tens of thousands of homes, wiped out huge tracts of farmland, crippled the coal mining industry and killed some 35 people. It was followed by a top-strength cyclone, which worsened damage......
Read more in Channel NewsAia:
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/1178770/1/.html
From the article, Singaporeans should know the difference between "ponding" and "flooding".
And the difference between Mount Faber and Mount Everest!
SYDNEY : Flooding in northeastern Australia caused thousands of homes to lose power on Tuesday and prompted authorities to start evacuations, around a year after deadly floods devastated the region.
Up to a dozen homes were evacuated on Brisbane's northern outskirts as Australia's third-largest city was hit by heavy rain, reports said, and authorities urged more people to leave their homes.
Almost 10,000 homes were blacked out and rising waters forced the closure of roads in Brisbane, which ground to a halt for several days in early 2011 due to flooding.
Last year's floods inundated tens of thousands of homes, wiped out huge tracts of farmland, crippled the coal mining industry and killed some 35 people. It was followed by a top-strength cyclone, which worsened damage......
Read more in Channel NewsAia:
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/1178770/1/.html
From the article, Singaporeans should know the difference between "ponding" and "flooding".
And the difference between Mount Faber and Mount Everest!
