ROME - The devastating flood that week is flooding the northeast of Australia, in an area as large as France and Germany combined, is now also covers the streets of Brisbane, Queensland's capital and third largest city with two million inhabitants . The center is desert and thousands of people today have been forced to evacuate from the suburbs are lower, while the flooding of the Brisbane River reached the four and a half meters meters.VIDEO VIDEO Brisbane River flooded street in full drag cars River is a huge swirling river that sweeps away to the sea, cars, boats, pontoons and other debris, while the muddy waters of the flood plain areas. The summit is scheduled for tomorrow with the dawn of a level of about 5 feet, a little more of the historic flood of 1974 which brought the city to its knees.
To-morrow it is expected that nearly 20 000 houses will be flooded in 3000 to Ipswich Brisbane and other (170,000 inhabitants), 40 km to the west. About 3,600 people have registered to stay in 57 evacuation centers in Brisbane and Ipswich. The death toll detected in recent days has risen to 12 after the discovery of two bodies in the Lockyer Valley upstream from Brisbane, where a 'tsunami inside' had flooded the town of Toowoomba and towns isolated.
Are now at least 22 people killed by storms in late November, while about 70 are still missing. Continue the search and rescue operations with the support of military helicopters in the Lockyer Valley, where he expects to find more victims.
No comments:
Post a Comment