Santa never made it into Kintore

A big rain came and rushed through the community – over 200mm of rain fell in less than 2 hours. The rain set water rushing off the two nearby mountains. When a blockage formed in a creek behind the community, the waters overflowed up to one metre deep through resident’s houses and yards.

Read about the initial response to the Christmas Day floods and the recovery cleanup that followed in Kintore - open the March issue of MacNews as a PDF