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March 7th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Floods have hit three eastern states this week, sweeping two men to their
deaths after they attempted to cross waterways in cars, inundating hundreds
of homes and causing millions of dollars in damage.
In Wagga Wagga, New South Wales’s largest inland city, 9,000 people were
evacuated on Tuesday as the surging Murrumbidgee threatened to breach its
levee.
While around 240 homes in the north of the town were damaged – some with water
up to the roof – many more in the central business district were spared
after the river peaked just below the levee limit.
Some residents were given the all-clear to return home Wednesday, although
parts of the town remained under water.
Red Cross national emergency services manager Andrew Coghlan warned flood
victims to brace themselves for a long road ahead.
“People need to prepare themselves for the challenge of not only
cleaning up and repairing damage to their property but also overcoming the
disruption caused to family life and the community,” he said.
New South Wales Premier Barry O’Farrell said it would be weeks or months
before the real cost of the crisis was known while Australian
Prime Minister Julia Gillard warned of a “long, hard journey of
recovery”.
“As a federal government we’ll keep working with our state counterparts
and local communities to support them during this difficult time,” said
Gillard, who travelled to Wagga Wagga Wednesday to see the destruction for
herself.
“As a nation we’ve shown that we don’t leave people behind, that we
continue to show our generosity and support to our fellow Australians when
they’re in times of need.”
Around New South Wales more than 13,000 people have been asked to leave their
homes due to flooding, with hundreds of properties inundated and a number of
rural communities isolated by the rising waters.
Flooding has also hit rural regions in the state of Victoria with nervous
residents of the town of Nathalia hoping an emergency levee built to protect
170 homes will hold as a creek keeps rising.
Peter Ryan, the deputy premier of Victoria, said he was confident it would.
“We will save this town,” he told reporters.
Source: agencies
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