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Friday, March 4, 2011

Dramatic video of flash floods raging in Australia

Flash floods swept through an Australian city Monday, killing at least two people, trapping others in cars and leaving some clinging to trees as relentless rains brought more misery to a region battling its worst flooding in decades. The raging torrent of muddy water picked up cars and tossed them like toys, carried away furniture as it washed through stores and prompted scores of emergency calls as it swamped Toowoomba, a city of about 90-thousand people in the state of Queensland in the country's northeast.


Monday, February 28, 2011

Flood chaos in Australia as water swamps Brisbane

Emergency sirens blared across Brisbane, Australia's third-largest city, on Wednesday as floodwaters that have torn a deadly path across the northeast poured into an empty downtown, swamping neighbourhoods. At least 22 people have died and more than 40 are missing across Australia's northeastern state of Queensland since drenching rains that began in November sent swollen rivers spilling over their banks, flooding an area larger than France and Germany combined.



Friday, December 10, 2010

Snow 'Avalanche' in Edinburgh

Pedestrians in Edinburgh, Scotland had a lucky escape when snow fell from the roof of a Scottish Widows building in the city.