SYDNEY: Military helicopters plucked hundreds of people from villages cut off by “once in a century” floods in Australia’s northwest, an official overseeing relief operations said on Sunday, saying water covered some spots “as far as the eye could see”.
Last week’s severe weather system Ellie, a former tropical cyclone that produced torrential rain, created the problem in the Kimberley, a sparsely inhabited territory in Western Australia state roughly the size of California.
“Water is everywhere,” Stephen Dawson, Western Australia’s Emergency Services Minister, told reporters in Perth.
