Australian floods: More heavy rain for east coast as evacuations continue

[Jo Farrow]

Australia - New South Wales and southern Queensland have seen torrential rain, over 900mm this week. Disasterous flooding and yet more rain with damaging winds up until midweek.

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[suffolk lady]

horrible for all the people who are affected by the floods, pictures on bbc web look horrific.

[Jo Farrow]

15 hours ago, suffolk lady said:

horrible for all the people who are affected by the floods, pictures on bbc web look horrific.

I was looking for some tweets of flooding to include but just had to keep scrolling past the scurrying spider ones. CLusters of spiders scrambling to get out of the water , sometimes onto things people were stranded on! yuck

[suffolk lady]

the scale of those floods is amazing bbc video this morning was unbelieveable those poor folk caught up in that, dread to think what ghastly life is swimming around in those waters spiders would be the least of your problems ugh.