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February 28th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
THE rains are here.
At least they will be for the eastern states.
Up to 160ml fell in Victoria’s central and northeastern areas last night. A relief centre has been set up in Castlemaine after the goldfields town was battered by storms last night.
The SES has been inundated with calls for help to the area after businesses and homes were lashed by flash floods.
Towns in Victoria’s north, including Rutherglen, Mangalore and Castlemaine, had their wettest 24 hours in a year.
SES spokesman Lachlan Quick said the overnight storm had prompted dozens of calls for help.
“Since about 9.30pm we have had around 100 calls for help, about 80 of those were from Castlemaine residents within 30 minutes,” Mr Quick said.
He said crews had been called to assist with flash flooding and building damage.
They were also called to rescue a driver who had become stuck in flood waters but arrived to find the driver had rescued himself.
What’s on the way?
The Weather Channel’s Shaun Stoker said the rain won’t be stopping any time soon. It’s going to settle in for at least eight days.
“There is a broad band of cloud covering most of the country due to a saturated atmosphere due to moisture coming in from both the Coral Sea and the Indian Ocean,” Mr Stoker said.
“Over the next eight days we can expect well over 100ml for many parts of southern Northern Territory, northern South Australia and right through west and southern New South Wales. We could even have falls of up to 200ml in some areas. That’s enough to cause flash flooding and widespread river flooding.”
The rain is set to start drenching the Sydney area from tomorrow and continue into Thursday.
The SES warned of possible flooding for the Hawkesbury-Nepean area amid warnings the Warragamda Dam could spill over for the first time in 14 years.
The Bureau of Meteorology has done computer modelling which shows there is a chance the dam could reach 100 per cent with water flowing over the spillway in several days time.
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.
Forecaster Paul Lainio says rainfall of up to 200 millimetres can be expected in some areas.
“For some of the locations [it is] over half of what they’d expect, in fact getting up toward the total annual rainfall for some of those areas,” he said.
“Arkaroola for instance [has an] annual average rainfall [of] 256 millimetres, Marree 162 millimetres.”
Roads closed because of rain in the outback include the Birdsville Track from Marree to Birdsville and the road between Hawker and Lyndhurst.
With the Herald Sun
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