{"id":257128,"date":"2022-10-19T02:54:37","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T03:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=257128"},"modified":"2022-10-19T05:48:20","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T05:48:20","slug":"flooded-australian-towns-ready-levees-sandbags-ahead-of-more-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/flooded-australian-towns-ready-levees-sandbags-ahead-of-more-rain","title":{"rendered":"Flooded Australian Towns Ready Levees, Sandbags Ahead Of More Rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SYDNEY, Oct 19 (Reuters) &#8211; Residents in flood-hit Australian towns ramped up efforts to build levees and sandbag homes on Wednesday ahead of more rain, although authorities said the expected storms could be milder than last week&#8217;s, bringing relief as recovery operations begin. Forecast rainfall across Victoria state is unlikely to trigger more major flooding, although parts of Australia&#8217;s east are likely to receive up to 100 mm (4 inches) of rain over the next five days, roughly a tenth of a year&#8217;s total for some areas, the Bureau of Meteorology said. &#8220;The expected rainfall over coming days is not expected to be anywhere near as widespread or as intense or as heavy, and as a result of that we&#8217;re not expecting a return to major flooding,&#8221; said Kevin Parkins, a meteorologist at the Bureau. Flood waters are still rising around several inland towns in Australia&#8217;s two most populous states of New South Wales and Victoria, with officials urging residents<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SYDNEY, Oct 19 (Reuters) &#8211; Residents in flood-hit Australian towns ramped up efforts to build levees and sandbag homes on Wednesday ahead of more rain, although authorities said the expected<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[199,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}