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Heavy rains in Australia leave four dead
Posted by New York Times: Matt Siegel on January 30th, 2013
New York Times: Punishing winds, torrential rains and powerful ocean swells have inundated large areas of Australia’s two most populous states, driving thousands of people from their homes and killing at least four people. The floods add one more blow to a barrage of bizarre and destructive weather in the country, which was in the grip of a searing four-month heat wave and scores of huge wildfires before the remains of Tropical Cyclone Oswald made landfall late last week. As the storm system crept south along...
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