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Gevolgen van noodweer Australië

DODEN DOOR NOODWEER NSW
In Australië zijn zeker negen mensen om het leven gekomen bij noodweer dat gisteren en vandaag de oostkust van het continent teisterde. Zeker vier personen worden nog vermist. De autoriteiten hebben twee regio’s ten noorden van Sydneyuitgeroepen tot natuurrampgebied, waardoor er meer hulp naar het gebied kan worden gestuurd, zo meldde de zender ABC.
Na een zoektocht van enkele uren vond de politie zaterdagavond plaatselijke tijd de lichamen van een kind en een man, wiens auto door wassend water van de weg was gesleurd. In het voertuig zaten ook de moeder en nog twee andere kinderen. Naar hen wordt nog gezocht. Elders is nog een zoektocht gaande naar een 40-jarige man die ook van de weg was gespoeld.
Afgelopen nacht werden de lichamen gevonden van een echtpaar dat eveneens van de weg was geraakt door het water. Circa 200.000 huishoudens zitten nog zonder stroom. Meteorologen voorspellen dat het weer nog een of twee dagen slecht blijft.
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A section of the Old Pacific Highway near Somersby collapsed after heavy rain. (ABC TV)

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(bron Nieuwnieuws.nl) zaterdag 9 juni 2007

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Surreal … Newcastle Road, Newcastle on Friday night. Picture: Sarah Rhodes


Newline Rd, Raymond Terrace.| Photographer: Brett Cobby


Sunrise over the grounded ship at Nobbys.| Photographer: Brooke Bannister

Bron foto’s: ABC Newcastle NSW

Van de Forumbeheerder:
Dit gebied is voor mij zeer bekend omdat ik hier drie maal ben geweest en hier rond Newcastle familie van mij wonen. Ik weet op dit moment niet hoe het met hun is, maar zal de komende uren natuurlijk contact met hun zoeken en volgt vooral de Australische Nieuws websites rond Newcastle.

De meeste doden vielen toen een auto in een rivier terechtkwam.
De auto met vijf inzittenden reed over een snelweg, toen door de regenval een deel van de snelweg wegspoelde. De bestuurder had dit te laat in de gaten en verdween in het ontstane gat.

Het noodweer zorgde in de regio voor 7500 hulpaanvragen bij politie en brandweer. 200.000 huishoudens raakten tijdelijk verstoken van elektriciteit. In een groot gebied langs de oostkust viel meer dan 100 millimeter neerslag. Het weerstation te Nobbys Headmeldde 210 millimeter.

Vrijdag liep in zwaar weer een vrachtschip aan de grond. Om de 21, merendeels Filippijnse, bemanningsleden van boord te halen, werd een grootscheepse reddingsactie op touw gezet. De bemanningsleden zijn één voor één van het schip gehaald (Zie artikel in Het laatste Australië nieuws )

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Sunk … the last sight of the Cremorne Point Wharf in Sydney, a victim of wild weather yesterday as it disappeared beneath the water in little over an hour / Andrew Bullard

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Hundreds evacuated from flooded NSW areas

Nine hundred people have been evacuated from homes in the New South Wales Hunter Valley.
Evacuation centres have been opened in Maitland, Singleton, Waratah West and Wyong to house the evacuees.
The SES says 400 people have been evacuated from the Chitteway Point area, where floodwaters are predicted to peak later tonight.
Another 500 people have been evacuated from Singleton and Maitland.
This includes 44 residents of a local nursing home.
Phil Campbell from the SES says they will continue doorknocking tonight.
“The focus this evening will be for those residents in low lying areas within the ring levy around Maitland,” he said.
A public hotline has also been set up, the number is 1800 227 228.
Victorian SES crews are on standby to fly to NSW to help with storm damage.
The NSW Emergency Service made a request for relief this afternoon.
Arrangements are now being put in place to send Victorian crews.
Meanwhile, Energy Australia is still battling the wild weather as it attempts to re-connect power to about 132,000 homes across Sydney, the Hunter Valley, the central coast and the southern highlands.
So far the severe storms have claimed six lives with two people still missing.
Last Update: ABCnews Saturday, June 9, 2007. 8:41pm (AEST)

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Last Update: Sunday, June 10, 2007. 6:56pm (AEST)http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200706/r150051_533296.jpg Water levels were also rising under the Dunolly Bridge at Singleton. (User submitted: Barbara Wolff)

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Maitland braces ahead of expected flooding

Thousands of people across New South Wales are still being affected by the wild storms that have lashed the Hunter Valley, Newcastle, the central coast and Sydney.
The most serious situation appears to be at Maitland in the Hunter Valley, where at least 4,000 people are being evacuated from their homes ahead of major flooding expected tonight.
The Bureau of Meteorology says the expected flood level of 11.4 metres has serious implications for the lower parts of central Maitland.
Hydrologist Hugh Bruist says it is likely the levee will be breached sometime between 9:00 pm AEST and midnight tonight.
“Just rising that small amount is enough to put it over that levee and to fill up those areas around Maitland, so we’re not looking at a difference of height but it does have a great effect on of course the outcome,” he said.
Emergency service crews are working around the clock to help residents and most local roads have now been closed.
About 50 SES volunteers are sandbagging the entrance to Maitland Railway Station in a bid to limit the amount of water entering the city when the river peaks.
The SES is urging residents in central Maitland, south Maitland and Lorn to leave their homes as soon as possible.
Evacuees are being urged to register at one of two relief centres at the east Maitland community centre or Maitland highschool.
Water levels are still rising upstream at Greta, while the Hunter River has already burst its banks at Morpeth.
But the river height is receding further up the valley at Singleton where it peaked at more than 14 metres last night.
Residents at Teralba in Lake Macquarie are on stand-by to evacuate because a railway embankment is threatening to collapse and flood nearby homes.
Lake Macquarie Mayor Greg Piper says while the embankment is under severe strain, it is hoped flooding will be averted.

Utilities

Hunter Water is warning the flood levels could lead to a cut in water supplies to all suburbs north of Louth Park.
A spokesman has urged people in the suburbs of Lochinvar, Branxton, Greeta and Rutherford to store some drinking water.
Energy Australia says power has been restored to about 30,000 storm-affected homes, mostly in the Hunter region.
75, 000 houses in the Hunter, central coast and Sydney’s northern suburbs, remain without power.
Energy Australia says it does not know when their power will be restored but that crews are being brought in from interstate to help restore power.
Spokesman Geoff Lillis says crews are working around the clock.
“We’ve got a massive effort coming from interstate,” he said.
“We’ve got line crews coming from as far away as Brisbane and Melbourne but also throughout western New South Wales and Grafton, Coffs Harbour, Lismore and the Queensland border so this is a massive effort.”

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Four thousand people in Maitland, NSW, have been ordered to evacuate their homes by 8pm tonight, after the Bureau of Meteorology predicted the swollen Hunter River will peak at 5cm above the levee at 9pm tonight. Meanwhile, some residents have evacuated and others have been sandbagging in Branxton, where the floodwaters are expected to peak at 6pm.

Newcastle shipwreck

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Unfounded … maritime experts remain positive the ship won’t break up and leak 700 tonnes of oil onto Nobbys Beach / AFP

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Tragedy … on the Old Pacific Highway at Sommersby, a family of five were swept to their deaths when the road gave way under their car / Angelo Soulas

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Gelukkig met de familie in Australie gaat alles goed, ze mogen van de overheid enkel niet hun huizen uit als dat niet nodig is. Ze hebben geen schade aan hun huizen wel in de tuinen zijn enige bomen omgegaan. Wateroverlast hebben ze wel in de buurt maar niet bij de woningen en ze hebben voldoende eten drinken in huis.

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Deze foto hieronder is heel dichtbij de fam. in Australie (Brandy Hill, Seaham) slechts enkele minuten rijden naar het historisch bijzonder leuk plaatsje: Morpeth.

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Cut off … flood waters around the mid north NSW town of Maitland flow through surroundings of the town of Morpeth / Toby Zerna


Queens Wharf, Morpeth. Sunday June 10th| Photographer: Margaret Vernon


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Storm kills native animals, flattens exhibits

Last Update: Thursday, June 14, 2007. 2:12pm AEST
By Anthony Scully
Storms in Newcastle and the Hunter Region on Friday have taken a toll on wildlife, including a large nature reserve in the centre of suburban Newcastle.
At the height of the storm, trees crashed through wildlife exhibits at Blackbutt Reserve, ruining years of hard work and some animals have been killed or escaped.
It’s not yet known when the reserve will re-open to the public, but a big clean-up effort is underway. 1233 ABC Newcastle field reporter Jenny Bates spoke to ranger Paul Metcalfe who described the discovery as devastating.
it’s going to take a long time for the forest structure to recover and the wildlife to return to what it was
“It’s pretty devastating after being here 11 years as the ranger coordinator,” he said.
“To get in here on Saturday morning, just from the house to here, it was just a job in itself - it took most of the morning to get through the carnage basically, I could only describe it as that. To find exhibits flattened and trees on them, it was sort of saying where do we start, that’s the problem.”
Some animals still missing

Newcastle City Council, which controls the reserve, has allocated between 30 and 40 extra staff to the area “as a priority”. Staff are still trying to locate some animals, including two wallabies, within the park.
“We’ve got to get these animals out, if there’s any left,” Mr Metcalfe said. “It took us all day to cut our way in, and as you can see we’re still cutting through the debris, nearly five days into it, so its been pretty disappointing.”
Mr Metcalfe says Blackbutt Reserve will be forever changed by the storm damage.
“Blackbutt will never be the same,” he said. "Some of these trees have been here for a long, long time; sure we can grow some more trees but it’s not going to be in our lifetime realistically.
Blackbutt will change, it won’t be what it was last week, it’s just a matter of time to wait and see what happens
“It’s a matter of waiting and seeing what happens. Hopefully the stability of the ground will be okay and the vegetation cover will still maintain, so we won’t be getting any huge landslides or anything like that. Certainly it’s going to take a long time for the forest structure to recover and the wildlife to return to what it was.”
Authorities have appealed to the public to keep out of the reserve until it can be declared safe.
“Hopefully we can open to the public some of the areas in the near future, sooner than later, and we can progressively work to open up others as we can, but we’re just ask the patience of people to understand that we need to make it safe before we can let them back in,” Mr Metcalfe said.
Aviaries smashed, wildlife killed

Falling trees knocked down by strong winds have damaged the bird aviaries.
“This is the worst hit area,” Mr Metcalfe said. "There are massive amounts of trees - we’re talking hundreds and hundreds of trees down throughout the park - we’ve got 20kms of tracks and trails, and we haven’t been able to access even some of those at this stage, we probably won’t for some time in the future.
Wildlife has fared well, considering the amount of damage to property.
“All of our koalas are safe,” he says. "Most of our birds that are in their enclosures are still going relatively well.
"We’re missing a couple of wallabies, but we caught one again yesterday, and hopefully in the next few days we’ll the find the rest that haven’t really gone that far.
“Obviously there has been a small amount of wildlife that have passed away based in the storm, but I mean it’s remarkable there hasn’t been more, based on the scale of devastation you can see here.”