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March 4th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Patients are being evacuated from the Numurkah Hospital near Shepparton as the flood emergency in northeast Victoria intensifies.
Victoria’s already sodden flood districts have been pummelled with up to 160mm of rain in 24 hours.
Numurkah is under most threat, with emergency services and the army sandbagging the small town as flood waters continue to rise.
“There has been some concern about the hospital which has been affected by flood waters and a number of patients will be relocated,” State Emergency Service (SES) incident control centre spokesman Darren Skelton told AAP.
“The majority of the sandbagging efforts in Numurkah are centred around the hospital.”
Soldiers are among SES and Country Fire Authority (CFA) personnel sandbagging Numurkah, with flood waters expected to peak on Monday at levels not seen since the 1993 floods.
Residents in nearby Nathalia are also on high alert, with flood waters expected to peak later in the week.
Roads into Tungamah have reopened, allowing food supplies in, but the town of Katamatite, about 50km northeast of Shepparton, remains isolated.
Parts of Tallygaroopna remain under water and rural properties north of Shepparton will remain isolated for several days.
Flood warnings remain in place in the northeast, where some areas have received four times their monthly average rainfall in four days.
Bureau of Meteorology senior meteorologist Phil King says the Ovens and King Rivers and the Mitta Mitta, Goulburn and Upper Murray were hardest hit by the unseasonal rains.
The highest rainfall was at Mt Buffalo, in the Alpine district, where 163mm of rain fell in 24 hours.
“Much of the river systems are already in flood and this is going to bring renewed flooding,” Mr King told AAP. “In the short term we’ll still see moderate to major flooding in those northeast river systems and that will take a number of days to go down.
“So the rain is easing but the flooding situation is not over.”
Victorian Premier Ted Baillieu and Deputy Premier Peter Ryan are expected to tour flood affected towns on Sunday.
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