Emergency Crews Make Most of Brief Reprieve in Wild Weather

Emergency crews are making use of a brief break in wild weather across Australia’s east coast to conduct clean-ups and warn some communities of potential flooding in the aftermath. It was a brutal start to spring as destructive winds battered Australia’s east coast, claiming the life of a 63-year-old woman at a holiday park in Moama on the New South Wales (NSW)-Victoria border. Weather events and strong winds across parts of NSW, Victoria, and Tasmania were deemed equivalent to a category one or two cyclone. In a statement on Sept. 3, Tasmania State Emergency Service said crews had responded to 277 requests for assistance overnight and that 20 warnings remained active for Derwent River, Meadowbank to Macquarie Plains, and Styx River, Bushy Park to Macquarie Plains and surrounds....