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February 28th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda 
Warragamba dam could reach 100 per cent with water flowing over the spillway. Picture: Stephen Cooper.
Source: The Daily Telegraph
FIRE crews have rescued a couple and their baby who were trapped by floodwaters near Broken Hill in NSW.
An emergency services spokesman said crews from Broken Hill were called to rescue the stranded family about 10 kilometres from the city in far western NSW today.
He said a Hazmat tanker was used to cross a flooded creek and pick up the trio, who were being taken back to Broken Hill.
They were all understood to be safe and well.
The rescue comes after the BOM warned Warragamba Dam could spill over for the first time in 14 years if the massive rain band set to drench much of NSW dumps huge falls in the dam’s catchment area.
The SES has warned of possible flooding for the Hawkesbury-Nepean area.
The Bureau of Meteorology has done computer modelling which shows there is a chance the dam could reach 100 per cent as it predicts falls of up to more than 200mm.
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The Sydney Catchment Authority said this morning it would take just 80mm of rain over two days in the dam’s 9000 square kilometre catchment area for the dam to spill over.
Heavy rain is set to start in southern NSW from today. Yesterday north eastern Victoria saw falls of up to 160mm.
The rain band is now moving into NSW. The Bureau said some parts of NSW could get a years worth of rain in one day.
Broken Hill’s average annual falls are 200mm but the Bureau said the area could be soaked by between 100mm and 250mm in 24 hours.
The rain is set to start drenching the Sydney area from tomorrow and continue into Thursday.
The last time Warragamba spilled over was in 1998. The last major flooding in the hawkesbury-Nepean valley was in 1992.
A flood watch has been issued by the Bureau of Meteorology for the for Cooma, the Murrumbidgee, Queanbeyan and Molonglo river valleys.
“Our nation is currently surrounded by very warm ocean temperatures, particularly off the west coast where the Indian Ocean has been steaming over three degrees higher than normal during the past few months,” Tom Saunders, Senior Meteorologist at The Weather Channel said.
“The warmer seas have increased evaporation which has allowed the atmosphere over Australia to become saturated with moisture, the perfect recipe for heavy rain and flooding.”
The flood warnings come as the Sydney CBD is set to see today only its second day this summer when the maximum temperature reaches 30C.
And Sydneysiders sweated through a night last night when the temperature stayed at 23C. Tonight is set to be another sweaty one with temperatures falling to just 21C.
With AAP
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