
Hundreds of people were evacuated Tuesday, December 28, in eastern Australia, where several cities are infested waters after historic floods. Torrential rains have battered the state of Queensland and follow the passage last week of Cylone Tasha, which quickly dissipated. In places such deluge not seen for 50 years, as in the towns of Chinchilla, Dalby and Theodore, to the interior, who found themselves cut off from the rest of the country for two days and part of whose residents were evacuated by helicopter.