The biggest flooding event in more than 10 years has swamped an outback Queensland town leading dozens of people to be evacuated. Emergency services are on alert as a monsoon brings more rainfall over the New Year weekend.
abc.net.au/news/urandangi-north-west-queensland-evacuated-amid-floods/101818966Twenty-one people have been evacuated from the outback Queensland town of Urandangi ahead of a flooding event predicted to be the biggest the region has seen in more than 10 years.
"While we're used to flooding in this region, this scale of flooding is definitely not normal," emergency management coordinator for the Queensland Fire and Emergency Services Mount Isa district Elliott Dunn said.Floodwater hasn't crept this close to the town since 2009. "Heavy rainfall over the Barkly region further north, as a result of ex-tropical cyclone Ellie, is making its way down through the channel country resulting in this flooding," Mr Dunn said.
While the majority of people from Urandangi were evacuated, a handful of local business owners and council members remained in town."They will have supplies flown in for them as they wait out what will probably be about 10 days for the water to subside," he said. Damaging winds and heavy rainfall are forecast for the rest of the weekend as a monsoon develops across Far North Queensland, impacting the Cape York Peninsula, Gulf of Carpentaria, and north-west Queensland, according to the Bureau of Meteorology.Floodwater from further north has made its way down to Urandangi.
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