Crocodiles Invade Queensland Towns
Posted by Big Gav
Bloomberg reports that Queensland towns are battling floods, crocodile invasions and, worst of all, depleting stocks of beer - Australia Battles Floods in North as Crocodiles Enter Towns . The southern part of the country is still frying - I'm glad I'm not in Melbourne today, and even Sydney's air was thick with bushfire smoke this morning when I headed for the beach.
Emergency services in northern Australia are battling the worst floods in three decades as residents report shortages of supplies and crocodiles swimming through towns inundated by water. Almost 3,000 homes have been flooded and 30 people evacuated in the northwest of Queensland state, the Department of Emergency Services said. Supplies are being airlifted to towns cut off by rising waters in the region west of Cairns, it said.
“It’s like looking out into an ocean,” Donna Smith, acting manager of the Albion Hotel in Normanton, a town inland from the Gulf of Carpentaria, said by telephone today. “There is a 5-meter crocodile swimming by, but the biggest problem is that we’re running out of beer.”
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