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The Latest Breaking News on Floods

‘Move people to rooftops’: Worst-ever Qld rain forces Burketown evacuation as power and sewers fail

Burketown residents are fleeing water-logged homes, while emergency services warn of power cuts and sewage backflows

The New Daily

Queensland floods: police say Burketown ‘not safe’ as dozens airlifted out

Residents in state’s rural west are bracing for the peak of record flooding on Sunday

The Guardian - AU

Burketown residents flown to safety amid record flooding in Gulf of Carpentaria

As rain moves south, power is out in parts of Burketown and sewerage systems are compromised. Police will remain in the town to assist residents who chose to stay behind.

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Burketown evacuated as record downpour inundates far north Queensland

A Queensland town faces worst-ever floods, with communities and properties isolated as possible heavy falls raise risk of of flash floods.

The New Daily

Heavy rain in Australia triggers flood evacuations in Queensland

Emergency services in Australia's Queensland state evacuated residents to higher ground on Saturday, as record-breaking floods sparked by heavy rain lashed the region's northwest.

Reuters

Floods transform parts of outback Victoria into 'sea of green' as usually dry areas flourish

Victoria's outback blooms as floodwater reaches areas where locals have not seen it for decades.

ABC News

Life-threatening flash flooding in California on Oscars weekend as Irish stars arrive

Californian officials are evacuating 70,000 people in the state this weekend due to flash flooding

Irish Mirror

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Cyclone aftermath offers popularity boost to new New Zealand PM Chris Hipkins as poll looms

Disaster has given opportunity to show decisive leadership but issues raised by climate change could be a political landmine

The Guardian - AU

Power cut off in Qld's northwest as flood levels rise

Rain is continuing to fall across large parts of Queensland, with evacuations under way as the northwest grapples with its worst floods in years.

AAP

New atmospheric river storm brings heavy rain to California

A new atmospheric river has brought heavy rain and thunderstorms to California, bringing flood threats and disrupting travel

The Independent UK

Woman lived with 'blinding' lights shining into her house for three years

Council apologises following delays to responding to floodlights installed without planning permission

Wales Online

West Lothian baby graves to be protected from flooding after winter damage

Bathgate cemetery's baby section was damaged by flooding over the Christmas holidays. Now a new defensive wall should stop all but the most serious flooding from the Bathgate Water

Edinburgh Live

Lack of cross-border flood alerts adds to disaster fears in Nepal

Amid threat of glacial lake floods, analysts rue a lack of information sharing among China, India and Nepal.

Al Jazeera

Relief for East Kimberley residents as flood-affected Victoria Highway reopens

The main freight route between WA and the NT has reopened after being blocked by floodwaters for several days.

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SES in 'turmoil, finger pointing' over deadly floods

An inquest into deadly flooding in Tasmania has been told there was a high level of turmoil and finger pointing within the state emergency service.

Los Angeles Times

California lowering dam water levels, warns of flood threat as storm hits

LOS ANGELES — With back-to-back storms to hit California in the coming days, state officials are scrambling to make strategic releases from key reservoirs in hopes of preventing a repeat of the deadly flooding that killed nearly two dozen people in January.

The New Daily

Crocs lurk, elderly evacuated amid record floods

Evacuations are underway in remote towns and outback properties in north-west Qld with flood warnings for rivers across the isolated region.

ABC News

Gulf residents prepare for mass evacuation as record Queensland floods continue

Emergency services have ramped up evacuation efforts in the Gulf of Carpentaria as "unprecedented" floods threaten to submerge towns.

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Newcastle Herald

State Wallsend flood fix 'would add $140 a year to water bills'

Shadow Minister for Water Rose Jackson is visiting Sonia Hornery's seat, committing to investigate the needs and costs to prevent a repeat of the Pasha Bulker flooding if elected.

ABC News

North Queensland flood evacuations, top US Republican Mitch McConnell hospitalised, and ex-NBA star Shawn Kemp arrested in drive-by shooting — as it happened

The news Australia is searching for, and all the news that happened while you snoozed: This is The Loop, your quick catch-up for this morning's stories as they happened.

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Not evacuating town where a woman died in 2016 floods was wrong call, former SES manager tells inquest

An inquest into the death of a woman who died in floodwaters in Tasmania's north-west seven years ago has heard the State Emergency Service's (SES) regional manager for the north-west ignored his colleagues' calls to evacuate the town.

AAP

Elderly flown from Burketown amid outback flooding rain

Evacuations will start in remote towns and outback properties in northwest Queensland with flood warnings for a number of rivers in the isolated region.

The Independent UK

New atmospheric river storm barrels toward California

California is bracing for the arrival of an atmospheric river that forecasters warn will bring heavy rain, strong winds, thunderstorms and the threat of flooding even as the state is still digging out from earlier storms

Los Angeles Times

New storm could bring more peril to California rivers already hit by deadly flooding

LOS ANGELES — A powerful storm barreling toward California from the tropical Pacific threatens to trigger widespread river flooding throughout the state as warm rain melts a record accumulation of snowpack and sends runoff surging down mountains and into streams and reservoirs.

The Guardian - AU

Queensland’s north hit by heavy rain and floods as tropical storm heads south

Widespread rainfall expected in state’s south-east this weekend but nowhere near the 500mm recorded in the north-west

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