'People are traumatised': The Australian's fearing their 'worst ever' flood clean-up
: 24.4 per cent above averageWestern AustraliaIn the north, it is monsoon season and BOM forecaster Jonathan How says that is coinciding with former tropical cyclone Ellie, bringing large rainfall totals.
"Across northern Australia, this is typically the wettest time of the year and, regardless of whether we exit La Niña, we're still expecting an above-average cyclone season in terms of the number of cyclones." Although it was downgraded to a tropical low the next morning, the system brought hundreds of millimetres of rain, sparking flood warnings, and wind gusts of up to 110 kilometres per hour.Flash flooding prompted calls for assistance in the remote town of Timber Creek and its surrounding communities, about 600km south of Darwin, where authorities described the situation as a one-in-50-year event.
Flood evacuees from the Timber Creek region say they have been forced to stay in overcrowded emergency accommodation.
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