Australian towns brace for peaking floodwaters

Friday, January 7, 2011

BRISBANE, Australia -- Australian officials on Friday urged residents of towns in the path of rising floodwaters to evacuate to higher ground as at least one river was forecast to peak higher than forecast due to heavy rain the night before.

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