Families flee as floods swamp Australia's southeast

Miami Herald Tuesday 6th March, 2012

SYDNEY -- There was good news Tuesday for Wagga Wagga, the city in southeast Australia that had braced for its worst flooding in 159 years. The swollen Murrumbidgee River peaked below the height of the New South Wales farming town's protective levee. The 11-meter defenses held steady as the river rose to 10.56 meters, below the record set in 1853 ...

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