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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/rain-brings-new-floods-to-australia.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Australia is facing widespread flooding (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-rain-brings-new-floods-to-australia.jpg" alt="Australia is facing widespread flooding (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>Floodwaters from a swollen river have poured into businesses in yet another north-eastern Australian community, as relentless rains brought more misery to a region battling its worst flooding in decades.</p>
<p>Muddy waters flowed through the main street in the city of Gympie, the latest of around 40 communities in Queensland state to be drenched by overflowing rivers in recent weeks.</p>
<p>Gympie residents were frantically sandbagging buildings, but around a dozen businesses were inundated by Monday morning and dozens more were at risk as the Mary River burst its banks and kept rising.</p>
<p>The latest flooding was not as bad as in recent weeks, when entire towns were submerged beneath an inland sea the size of France and Germany combined. But it was a sign that the ground has little capacity left to soak up any more moisture, so any new rain is likely to make matters worse, officials said.</p>
<p>Some areas of Queensland have had more than 13 inches of rain in the past 24 hours, the Bureau of Meteorology said.</p>
<p>Up to 80 businesses and homes were at risk of being inundated in Gympie, a city of around 16,000, said Acting Regional Mayor Tony Perrett.</p>
<p>Police were planning to knock on doors in high-risk areas, warning residents they may need to flee, Perrett said.</p>
<p>&#8220;If it looks like (it&#8217;s) getting to be a life-threatening situation somewhere, we&#8217;ll certainly get people out,&#8221; he told Australian Broadcasting Corp.</p>
<p>The water was already 5 feet deep at Gympie&#8217;s Royal Hotel on Monday morning. &#8220;You want to cry,&#8221; the hotel&#8217;s assistant manager Jess Philpot said. &#8220;It&#8217;s going to go up to the roof.&#8221;</p>
<p>Ten people have died since late November and about 200,000 have been affected by the floods. Roads and rail lines have been cut, Queensland&#8217;s big-exporting coal mine industry has virtually shut down, and cattle ranching and farming across a large part of the state are at a standstill.</p>
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