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Hospital patients are evacuated from Bundaberg by RAAF C-130J. defence
In the wake of Oswald
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Aerial support to the flood crisis
In mid-January a heat low formed over the Top End, the result of the monsoon running very late causing very high land temperatures. It drifted out over the Gulf of Carpentaria where water temperatures were optimum to form a cyclone and on January 21 became cyclone Oswald, crossing Cape York leaving the usual flooding and damage. After a couple of days in a holding pattern the now ex-cyclone began the long drift south through inland Queensland before finally crossing the coast near Sydney, its path the scene of some of the nation’s worst-ever bush fires, which its massive rains helped extinguish.
But the massive rains caused some of the worst and most extensive flooding ever seen – from Kowanyama to Rockhampton to the New South Wales north coast.
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