Entire road networks have become swamped by floodwater with emergency services warning against travelling throughout north-west Queensland and across the Northern Territory-Queensland border as a monsoon threatens even more rain.
abc.net.au/news/queensland-nt-border-flooded-travellers-warned/101814162Travellers are being urged to stay put as arterial roads between the Northern Territory and Queensland are cut off by floodwater.
Popular traveller hotspot The Barkly Homestead was inundated with 500mm of rain over three days, shutting down power, septic pumps and fuel bowsers at the major service centre."Water is knee-deep and not subsiding. As much as we would like to accommodate all the travellers trying to get to Queensland, we cannot at the moment. Please stay away until floods subside," the homestead said in a statement.
"We've had some fairly heavy rainfall around the Barkly region and that all eventually makes its way down through the Georgina River system down to Boulia," Elliott Dunn, emergency management coordinator for the Queensland Fire and Emergency Services Mount Isa district said.
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