8 die, 72 missing in Australia flash floods (mine floods will ruin their water too)

Comment:  Please pray for the people in Austrilia, this is so awful!  Plus their govt is allowing the mines to dump their heavy metals into the water too!  Today will be focus on flooding and mines!

Relentless rain also raising waters in Brisbane, home to 2 million

updated 1 hour 26 minutes ago
2011-01-11T01:14:25

BRISBANE, Australia — At least eight people were killed and 72 were missing after the latest downpour to hit Australia's flood-wracked Queensland state sent raging torrents rushing through several towns, washing away cars and houses.

Emergency services officers plucked more than 40 people from houses isolated by the torrent that hit the Lockyer Valley with little warning on Monday, but thunderstorms and more driving rain were keeping helicopters from reaching an unknown number of other people still in danger on Tuesday morning.

Scores of emergency calls were made as the flood swamped Toowoomba, a city of about 90,000 in Queensland state. At least two children were among the dead and Queensland police said the number of people missing in and near Toowoomba had risen to 72.

"Right now we have every possible available resource deployed into this region to search for those people that we know are missing," Queensland Premier Anna Bligh told Australia's Nine Network. "This is going to be I think a very grim day."

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