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Brisbane suffered major flooding, along with the cities of Maryborough, Gympie, the Sunshine Coast, Caboolture, Toowoomba, Gatton, Ipswich, Logan City, the Gold Coast, Murwillumbah, Mullumbimby, Grafton, Byron Bay, Ballina, Lismore, the Central Coast and parts of Sydney. Twenty-four people are known to have died during the disaster. [10]
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 ...
Sixteen people lost their lives, including twelve people who were drowned in Brisbane and Ipswich. [24] The first flood related deaths were at 11:20pm on 24 January. Raymond Roy Davidson (29 years, from Wacol) and Hazel Dulcie Afflick (40 years) were killed in a head-on collision at Wacol, both drivers being blinded by gale-force winds and ...
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.
A cyclone in Northern Queensland killed 99 people over two days in mid March 1934. [50] A cyclone struck the Gold Coast on 20 February 1954. Four people were killed during the cyclone, [51] while a further 22 died in the resulting floods around Lismore in Northern New South Wales. [52]
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Piles of garbage and flood-damaged furniture lined the streets of a Melbourne suburb on Sunday, October 16, as residents cleaned up after the Maribyrnong River burst its banks, causing the area ...
Dramatic flooding killed at least 158 people in Spain ... Residents walk past cars piled up by deadly floodwaters in the Valencia suburb of Barrio de la Torre, in eastern Spain, Oct. 30, 2024 ...