![]() ![]() State Emergency Service commander Josh Gamble said complacency was the main reason for people getting into trouble. The State Emergency Service said it had carried out 108 flood rescues in Victoria in the past 48 hours. ![]() Police on Tuesday found the body of a 46-year-old man in his submerged car in floodwater near the New South Wales city of Bathurst, west of Sydney, a day after he died. No details of the person missing from the Victorian town of Newbridge have been released. North of Victoria, moderate-to-major flooding was occurring along several rivers in inland New South Wales state, the bureau said.Ī 63-year-old man was reported missing in floodwater in New South Wales on Tuesday and a person was reported missing in central Victoria on Friday, officials said. The Bureau of Meteorology said major-to-record flooding was occurring or was forecast to occur on many rivers in Victoria and the island state of Tasmania to the south. “So this has only just started and it’s going to be with us for a while.”Īndrews said 4,700 homes were without power, more than the 3,500 that Victoria State Emergency Service had reported earlier on Friday. “The real challenge now is we’ve got another rain event next week and the Bureau (of Meteorology) forecasting more rain throughout the next six-to-eight week period and it won’t take a lot of additional water for there to be further flood events,” Andrews added. Most of the state was experiencing a “very, very, significant rainfall event and it comes, of course, with the ground completely sodden,” Andrews said. ![]()
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