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Earlier today, the floodwaters began their steady rise, gradually encroaching upon the streets. The relentless surge has rendered roads impassable, submerged low-lying areas, and compelled wildlife to navigate through the inundated landscape.
“We’ve been hard at work sandbagging entryways—both front and back—on most homes,” said Diesel Stenholm, the SES Longreach local controller. “We’ll continue this effort as long as possible, but the water is here now, and it’s rising.”
Fortunately, additional assistance is on its way from other parts of the state.
“Our local team of six volunteers has been reinforced by eight others from across the state,” Stenholm added.
“We have six of our local volunteers and they’ve been joined by eight from around the state,” Stenholm said.
The tight-knit community of Cramsie, in the Longreach region has spent the past few days preparing.
The Jones family built their own one metre high levee around the perimeter of their property in a last ditch effort to protect their home.
“The water is rising quite quickly, we’ve built it around the set of yards as well, because we’ve got some horses in there,” Longreach local Jackarra Jones said.
“I am a little bit concerned that it will not be enough,”
While one town prepares for a flood peak, other communities are commencing the mammoth clean up after floodwaters receded.
This is particularly the case in Bundaberg, where a group of volunteers known as the mud army, get to work.
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