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marmar

(77,091 posts) Tue Mar 1, 2022, 10:51 AM Mar 2022

Australia: Stranded people and horses wait on the Court Street bridge at Woodburn as floodwaters ris

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Australia: Stranded people and horses wait on the Court Street bridge at Woodburn as floodwaters ris (Original Post) marmar Mar 2022 OP

Yikes. Hope everyone, human and equine, make it off safely. Wingus Dingus Mar 2022 #1

Issue with evacuating to a bridge or rooftop during a flood is that you're trapped ... Auggie Mar 2022 #2

Safe SharonClark Mar 2022 #3

Wingus Dingus

(8,059 posts)

1. Yikes. Hope everyone, human and equine, make it off safely.

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Tue Mar 1, 2022, 11:38 AM

Mar 2022

Auggie

(31,196 posts)

2. Issue with evacuating to a bridge or rooftop during a flood is that you're trapped ...

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Tue Mar 1, 2022, 11:41 AM

Mar 2022

unless it's the only option.

SharonClark

(10,014 posts)

3. Safe

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Tue Mar 1, 2022, 12:32 PM

Mar 2022

Woodburn State Emergency Services Unit Commander Ashley Slapp told ABC News that the motorists and animals had to spend a night on the bridge because rescue teams couldn't retrieve them in the dark.

"We just had to make sure that they bunkered down, and we went in this morning and got them all out," he told the outlet on Tuesday.

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