Bangkok Residents Run from Floods – The city’s bus and train stations and many roads are jammed by crowds of people attempting to flee. People in several northern districts of the capital – some of which are now 90% submerged by rising water – have been told they should evacuate immediately. More than 360 people [...]
More Floods For Victoria – Twenty-five people were evacuated overnight from the Rochester Caravan Park, about 20 kilometres south of Echuca, where the Campaspe River burst its banks and flood waters began to rise. State Emergency Service spokesman Lachlan Quick said about 200 people attended a community meeting in the town last night. While about [...]
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The worst of the floods are still to come for Victoria with more rain forecast for most of the state. Saturday and Sunday, thousands were stranded or forced from their homes due to rising flood waters. Residents did have forewarning from the forecasts but many underestimated just how bad it would get. Even this morning [...]
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FaceBook Hits 500 Million Users – Facebook July 21 reached 500 million users and commemorated the milestone by launching an application that lets users share the stories about how Facebook has impacted their lives. As reported earlier by eWEEK, Facebook Stories lets users read how people leveraged the social networking Website to do anything from [...]
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NSW Bracing For Historic Floods – Major flooding is expected across northern NSW in coming days, leading to predictions of scenes not witnessed since the great floods of 1990. An evacuation order was issued for the Weilmoringle and Goodooga communities, in Brewarrina Shire, on Friday.
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