UNDER brilliant blue skies, much of northern, western and central Victoria slid beneath record murky brown floodwaters yesterday - with even worse to come. Four major rivers have affected an area spanning about a quarter of the state. Towns as far apart as Horsham, 300 kilometres north-west of Melbourne, and Rochester, 180 kilometres to its north, were bracing last night for their worst-ever flooding. More than a dozen other towns were threatened yesterday, cut off or cut in half - many of which were still recovering from the floods of September - and the number is likely to double over coming days. (Sydney Morning Herald)Sunday, 16 January 2011
Record flooding wreaks havoc
UNDER brilliant blue skies, much of northern, western and central Victoria slid beneath record murky brown floodwaters yesterday - with even worse to come. Four major rivers have affected an area spanning about a quarter of the state. Towns as far apart as Horsham, 300 kilometres north-west of Melbourne, and Rochester, 180 kilometres to its north, were bracing last night for their worst-ever flooding. More than a dozen other towns were threatened yesterday, cut off or cut in half - many of which were still recovering from the floods of September - and the number is likely to double over coming days. (Sydney Morning Herald)