The Australian government has evacuated over 200,000

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people from an area bigger than Texas. Those Queensland floods aren't over yet either.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/12/31/3104129.htm

I love intelligent people manning operations.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/12/31/3104640.htm

Meanwhile aid agencies have begun salvaging food items from a flooded supermarket in Emerald after the Nogoa River peaked at 16 metres on Thursday night.

On Friday the centre had about half a metre of water running through it and aid agencies have moved in to salvage food for the town's evacuation centres.

The town's Coles shopping complex, which is situated near the completely submerged Vince Lester Bridge, has also been inundated with water.

Helicopters are also making food drops into Emerald and other isolated towns in the Central Highlands.