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The 2025 Queensland floods refer to significant ongoing flooding that is impacting the northeast Australia state of Queensland in late January and early February 2025. The disaster resulted in at least one fatality and prompted mass evacuation orders in Queensland's coastal regions.
Homes were flooded in Melbourne and other cities in Australia’s southeast on Friday with rivers forecast to remain dangerously high for days. About 70 residents were told to leave the suburb of ...
Tens of thousands of people were ordered to evacuate their homes by Tuesday and hundreds of thousands more were told to prepare to flee as parts of Australia’s southeast coast were inundated by ...
Two men trapped in vehicles hundreds of kilometers (miles) apart have become the first fatalities of record flooding on Australia's east coast. A car got trapped in floodwater northwest of Sydney ...
It is the costliest natural disaster in Western Australian history 2010 Flood: September 2010 Victoria floods: 0 250 2010 Flood: 2010 Gascoyne River flood: 0 two thousand head of cattle perished 100,000,000 AUD ( preliminary) The most severe flood to take place along the Gascoyne River in Western Australia on record. 2010–2011 Flood
The 2022 south eastern Australia floods are a series of floods that have occurred in south-eastern Australia [nb 1] since October 2022. [6] Some towns experienced the highest river peaks in decades, [7] and many places saw rivers peak multiple times. The floods were attributed to excess torrential rain caused by La Niña and a negative Indian ...
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The flood caused 12 deaths, which were dramatically represented in the Illustrated Sydney News in July 1867. Survivors were on rooftops waiting to be rescued by boatmen. [101] Known as The Great Flood, it caused damage in the order of $1.4 billion in the Nepean region and it has about a one-in-280 chance of occurring again. [5]