Residents ordered to evacuate as catastrophic flooding threatens entire city: 'This is an unprecedented situation'

Residents ordered to evacuate as catastrophic flooding threatens entire city: 'This is an unprecedented situation'

As of March 11, numerous flood watches and warnings remained in effect across two large regions in northern Australia. Days of torrential rain had brought the worst flooding some spots had seen in decades, with some residents told to evacuate. Successive days of heavy rain also impacted the town of Darwin in Australia's Northern Territory. "This is an unprecedented situation, and we have never seen this volume of water in the dam before," said P…