Australian Authorities Deliberately Flood Town

The Queensland government in Australia chose to deliberately flood parts of a town in order to prevent a nearby dam from collapsing. As more rain fell in a week than the area is accustomed to seeing in a year, the Ross River dam above the town of Townsville was at 247 percent capacity. Residents were evacuated as over 1,900 cubic metres of water a second was released through the floodgates.