Residents weigh up evacuation or weeks of isolation amid flood 'we haven't seen before'

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Residents weigh up weeks of isolation amid flood 'we haven't seen before'

The State Emergency Service has asked all residents in the New South Wales town of Moulamein to evacuate, via escort, by 2pm this afternoon due to rising levels in the Billabong Creek and Edward River.

Mid-Murray Zone Deputy Incident Controller, Ian Leckie, says he wants the town prepared for inundation, but is hoping it will only be isolated. "In conjunction with council and emergency services, we'll be maintaining works on those levees as need be."The primary school is closed and residents, particularly those with medical conditions or appointments, are being urged to leave.She attended a SES meeting in the town yesterday about the evacuation and said, at this stage, her and her family will stay in town.

 

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On one hand, measures like 'one in one hundred years' are foolish because they imply a regularity that doesn't exist. But on the other hand, if that IS a measure of approximate frequency, how many centenarians are there to have 'seen before'?

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