Townsville residents were inundated by rapidly rising water overnight on Feb. 3 night when the floodgates at the local dam automatically tripped open as it reached 247 percent capacity.
Already declared a disaster zone as of Jan. 3 in what has been described as a “one-in-100-year” flood, monsoon rains hovering over the Australian state of Queensland have dropped another 400 millimeters (1.3 feet) over some areas in the region.
