Australian Floods
Australian Floods
Clip: 425759_1_1
Year Shot: 1967
(Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1758
Original Film: 040-024-02
HD: N/A
Location: Queensland, Australia
Timecode: 00:54:11 - 00:54:35
Queensland, in northern Australia, experiences widespread damaging floods after three days of torrential rains. More than four thousand people are evacuated. Farms are ruined. Heads of cattle are drowned. Up to fifty inches of rain pelted the area. Aerials of a flooded town in Australia. The water looks like it could be at least 3-feet deep. The voice over reports that torrential rains fell accumulating more than 50 inches. It drowned cattle, ruined farms and destroyed property. 4,000 people were evacuated by boats and helicopters.