About 85% of the town’s 484 residents chose to stay despite being told to evacuate, with roads out expected to be closed for several weeks
Hundreds of residents of the small Riverina town of Moulamein have elected to stay and defend their properties against the rising flood waters even though authorities have warned they may be isolated into December.
The saturated catchment would see the river levels hold steady near that peak “well through December”, the Bureau of Meteorology senior meteorologist Miriam Bradbury said.“Unfortunately, these flood waters are just so slow moving that those peaks may take a number of weeks to start to ease back,” Bradbury said.
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