Along with my neighbours, I’ll find out today whether the Murrumbidgee River will inundate our homes
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Pictures flood my phone of waters serenely enveloping the plain that surrounds my village in north Wagga Wagga. Along with about 300 neighbours, I’ll find out today whether the Murrumbidgee River will inundate our homes.
But as residents watch the rising flood waters, we face an unsettling quiet. The point of no return has already been passed and the river will have its way: our homes, situated within a ring levee in the middle of a New South Wales Riverina region flood plain, are already cut off.
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