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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/woman-drowns-in-australian-floods.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Military aircraft dropped supplies to towns cut off by floods in north-east Australia (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-woman-drowns-in-australian-floods.jpg" alt="Military aircraft dropped supplies to towns cut off by floods in north-east Australia (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>A woman drowned after trying to cross a flooded causeway in Australia, becoming the first victim of relentless flooding that one official described as reaching &#8220;biblical proportions&#8221;.</p>
<p>Days of heavy rain last week left much of north-east Australia swamped by a sea of muddy water, with flooding affecting about 200,000 people in an area larger than France and Germany combined.</p>
<p>The rain has stopped but rivers are still rising and overflowing into low-lying communities as the water moves toward the ocean.</p>
<p>On Saturday evening, two cars trying to cross a flooded causeway were swept into a river in Burketown, in western Queensland, police said. A 41-year-old woman travelling in the second car disappeared in the rushing water, and her body was later recovered about 1.2 miles away, Queensland Police said.</p>
<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re just grateful there weren&#8217;t more casualties,&#8221; Queensland&#8217;s Acting Assistant Police Commissioner Alistair Dawson said. &#8220;We&#8217;re focused on preventing any more.&#8221;</p>
<p>About 1,000 people are living in evacuation centres across the state, and it may be a month before floodwaters dry up, Mr Dawson said.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s hard to make the call that the worst is behind us,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s a unique event &#8211; parts of the state are still in response mode while others are in recovery. I think we&#8217;re in the middle of the event.&#8221;</p>
<p>Officials said half of Queensland&#8217;s 715,305 square miles (1.8 million square kilometres) has been affected by the flooding. Queensland premier Anna Bligh warned that clean-up efforts were expected to cost billions of dollars.</p>
<p>Another severe thunderstorm is expected to sweep through much of southern Queensland later, bringing damaging hail and winds and the potential for flash flooding, the state Bureau of Meteorology warned.</p>
<p>&#8220;In many ways, it is a disaster of biblical proportions,&#8221; Queensland treasurer Andrew Fraser told reporters in the flooded city of Bundaberg on Saturday.</p>
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