‘Rain bomb’ East coast reels from worst floods in memory
Mar 11, 2022
3 minutes
By Caitlin Cassidy
When Jenni Metcalfe returned to her Brisbane home to survey the damage as the nearby river peaked, water had already risen a metre up the back wall. There was nothing she could do. “I sat in the gutter and watched it and cried,” she said.
Communities on the east coast of Australia began to survey the wreck-age of fatal flooding that left townships devastated after more than a week of torrential rain.
South-east Queensland and the north coast of New
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