Photo-Floods February 2009 Santa Fe One Journal Australian officials said today the affected area a disaster zone for two days by torrential rains and flooding that have killed at least one person and left a trail of victims . Thousands of people have been isolated and 6,000 have been evacuated in a vast expanse of land north of New South Wales, ABC radio reported.
In some places they have collected up to 450 millimeters of rain per square meter and an average of 250, while Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has offered the assistance of the Federal Government. Authorities did not rule out that the river overflows Wilson, 730 miles northwest of Sydney, passing through Lismore, a town of 30,000 inhabitants.
The river has already reached 10.4 meters and forced the evacuation of about 5,000 people, and a thousand other residents of the nearby town of Grafton began to collect their belongings after they accumulate up to 350 mm water per square meter in just ten hours. It has also ordered the closure of 240 schools and set up two evacuation centers in the area, and the Bureau of Meteorology warned that heavy rains continue for at least a day and a half.
alert is maintained in the neighboring state of Queensland, where yesterday was the same storm. In the worst floods since 1974, some 3,000 homes without power are still there, hundreds of roads impassable and many areas are completely flooded, although they have started cleaning.
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