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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 9202458" data-attributes="member: 92282">Deadly Australian floods spark evacuations in BrisbaneAuthorities urged  thousands of people to leave the outskirts of Australia's third-largest  city, Brisbane, on Tuesday as floodwaters raced eastwards after a  surging two-metre wall of water killed nine people overnight.  Cars and pedestrians were swept  away on Monday night when a "super rainstorm" sent water raging through  the streets of Toowoomba, west of Brisbane. Police said more than 40  people had been pulled from rooftops by helicopters, but by  mid-afternoon 59 were still missing.The  worst flooding in Queensland state in 50 years has killed 13 people in  the past two weeks, but police warn the death toll could rise  significantly.Traffic jams formed  in central Brisbane as people headed out by car amid heavy rains and  initial flooding, residents stocked up on food supplies and families  started filling evacuation centres in the city and the neighbouring town  of Ipswich.Brisbane Mayor Campbell Newman said some 6,500 homes, businesses and properties would be flooded by Thursday.<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSLNE70303W20110111" target="_blank">Reuters</a></blockquote>

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