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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/communities-braced-for-more-floods.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Rural communities in Australia are bracing themselves for more floods. (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-communities-braced-for-more-floods.jpg" alt="Rural communities in Australia are bracing themselves for more floods. (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>Dozens of rural Australian communities are sandbagging their properties as they nervously watched four river systems rising from heavy rains upstream.</p>
<p>More than 3,500 people have evacuated their homes in north-central Victoria state, where some towns are predicting the worst floods in 100 years.</p>
<p>&#8220;In some of our river systems, we are seeing unprecedented stream rises,&#8221; said State Emergency Service operations director Trevor White, adding that the flood event was one of Victoria&#8217;s biggest since records began.</p>
<p>Neil Pankhurst, mayor of the Murray River port of Echuca, said the town&#8217;s levee was designed to withstand a one-in-100-year flood, which is dangerously close to what is expected.</p>
<p>&#8220;The levee is designed to contain a flood of the level we&#8217;re expecting and we believe it will hold,&#8221; Pankhurst said.</p>
<p>He said some low-lying properties were likely to be isolated by floodwaters but most homes would not have water above floor level, he said.</p>
<p>People were watching warily after witnessing the devastation floods have wreaked in Queensland state.</p>
<p>Three weeks of flooding in the north-eastern state left a vast territory under water and caused 28 deaths, most of them from a flash flood that hit towns west of Brisbane on Monday. Fourteen people are still missing.</p>
<p>In Grantham, 70% of the town remained cordoned off while the search for bodies continued.</p>
<p>&#8220;People I hope will understand the pressure that the police are working under in these sorts of circumstances and be patient,&#8221; Queensland state Premier Anna Bligh said.</p>
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