Australia Rain Bomb: Dozens of cities, including Australia’s main city and the capital of Queensland province, have been flooded after heavy rains. In many places, the water rose to several feet and people had to take shelter on the roofs of their houses. On Sunday, people in the northeastern city of Australia had to face many other problems including power cuts.
Brisbane, Australia’s third most populous city, was flooded after heavy rain on Sunday. So far eight people have died due to floods in the areas of the east coast. This is the worst flood in Brisbane and its surrounding areas since 2011. Torrential rains that year caused a city with a population of 2.6 million to be submerged in inundation and it was described as an event of a century.
Queensland State Police said on Monday that a 59-year-old man in Brisbane drowned while trying to cross a small river on foot on Sunday. The Queensland Emergency Service has issued a warning of deadly flooding in parts of the city of Gold Coast, south of Brisbane. People have been advised to move to safer places. The Queensland Fire and Emergency Service said it had lost contact with several areas.
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All eight deaths due to floods occurred in the state of Queensland, whose capital is Brisbane. As many as 2,145 homes and 2,356 shops were submerged in Brisbane’s suburbs as of Sunday, with water levels rising, with some 10,827 other properties at risk of being partially submerged. Adrian Screener, Lord Mayor of Brisbane, said the floods this time were different from the 2011 floods, as the region had been raining for five days, while the rain had stopped several days before the Brisbane River surged in 2011.
In Queensland, the most damage was done in the southeast, where more than 1,000 schools were closed and 50,000 homes were left without electricity and water. In many places, the rain broke the old records and suffered a month’s rain in a single day.
Floating through Milton. Usually one of Brisbanes busiest thoroughfares on a Monday morning. @ACurrentAffair9 #bneflood pic.twitter.com/knu13fvOE2
— Pippa Bradshaw (@pippabradshaw) February 27, 2022
More than 100 schools in the southeast of the state famous for its sunshine will remain closed on Monday. State rescue services said they had received 100 requests an hour for help in recent days. The rain had stopped for days before the Brisbane River reached its peak, and officials warned of several days of downstream flooding.
State Chief Minister Anastasia Palache said in a press conference that I think everyone will agree that no one has seen such heavy rain in such a short time. Generally, the east coast of Australia receives rain in summer due to the La Nia effect. It is the summer season in Australia, which falls in the Southern Hemisphere.
At the same time, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison called the heavy rains a ‘seasonal bomb’ and said that the army would be deployed for rescue operations in the flood-affected areas. This weather bomb has now entered the country’s most populous state, New South Wales, and there is a possibility of affecting normal life.
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