Victoria floods LIVE updates: Kerang told to evacuate, Echuca on high alert as SES issues evacuation orders across state; BOM warns of more rain

that residents near the Maribyrnong River were not given accurate information about the scale of the unfolding flooding disaster, adding her voice to criticisms that evacuation warnings came too late.“I think the important point to make in relation to that particular community [Maribyrnong] is that earlier in the week, there were a number of homes that were doorknocked in relation to the impending weather.

The VicEmergency warning issued around midday has downgraded the emergency warning to a low-level advice notice. The volunteer organisation has had to euthanize a number of kangaroos hit after hundreds of evacuating cars and sightseers crossed the causeway between Mooroopna and Shepparton over the weekend, where ’roos had been marooned from floodwaters.Some of these kangaroos had young in their pouches, including one joey that had drowned as its exhausted mother swam through floodwater, Kerwan said.

“The feedback from the paramedics out there on the road is despite the confusion and some of the chaos, they did an amazing job and kept the system running as safely as possible.” This week’s flood peak levels have been revised down slightly from 95.9 metres above sea level to 95.6 metres, but the peak is now not expected to hit until Friday and Saturday. Those days coincide with forecast heavy rainfall of between 40 and 60 millimetres.

He said the council had constructed the levees based on advice from Emergency Management Victoria and others. “We’ll be watching that thunderstorm activity pretty closely and issuing warnings for more of a flash-flood risk rather than heavy rainfall over a wider area,” Parkyn said. “The reason it went very well is that, as we know, [due to] continued investment in ESTA, continued recruitment of more and more call-takers, they were able to flip to that backup system and answer the calls that were coming through, regardless of the fact the system went down.

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