Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work; to remix – to adapt the work; Under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made.
Widespread flooding in the Sydney basin and the Mid North Coast of NSW (2021 eastern Australia floods). Extending into South East Queensland: NSW, South East Queensland 3 (As of 25 March 2021) [27] [28] 9-10 June 2021 Widespread flash flooding across Gippsland. 160,000 properties blacked out, some for 4 days or more.
On Saturday, Jan. 18 at around 7:45 a.m. local time, police and emergency services were called to a home in the Brisbane suburb of Kingston, where a woman was found with "burns to her body," an ...
Parts of Yeronga were inundated during Brisbane's 2011 floods. [23] [24]The major flood events of the Brisbane River in 1887, 1890, 1893, 1907 and 1931 [25] are not recorded as causing significant damage to Yeronga (the flood-prone areas of which were not extensively developed at those times), but the 1974 and 2011 floods caused extensive damage to many of the properties adjacent to the river ...
Queensland authorities said major flooding was underway in some suburbs of Cairns, a tourist hub of around 170,000 people located around 1,700 km (1,060 miles) north of state capital Brisbane.
Enoggera Dam, in the western Brisbane suburb of The Gap, reached a record capacity of 270% on the same day. [30] Wivenhoe Dam is primarily designed for drinking water supply to Brisbane, Ipswich, and surrounding areas, as well as flood protection for Brisbane.
On Friday 14 October, the State Emergency Service (SES) conducted more than 200 flood rescues. [18] 146 flood rescues were made the following day. [19] At one point around 4,700 homes were without power [18] and 344 roads were closed. [20] A 71-year-old man was found dead in floodwaters in his backyard in Rochester. [21]
A full list of road closures can be found at drivenc.gov. At the height of the storm, more than 500,000 Duke Energy customers in North Carolina were without power. More than 200,000 of those ...