Residents in two major Western Australian towns have been warned their communities are about to become islands, amid the state’s worst flooding on record.
A 50 km wide inland sea is surging towards the Kimberley coast after the swollen Fitzroy River devastated the town of Fitzroy Crossing earlier in the week.
Emergency Services Minister Stephen Dawson warned residents they would become isolated by floodwaters.
“Be under no illusions, Derby will be an island in the next few days, it will be cut off,” Dawson told reporters on Jan. 6.
“The weather and the water, it’s coming towards it so there will be isolation for probably Broome and Derby….