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Top End communities cut off by flooding for weeks 'disgusted' by lack of government support

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The reopening of the Victoria Highway last Sunday ended almost three weeks of isolation for these Top End communities. Timber Creek's homes escaped the floodwaters unscathed, despite the Victoria River swelling past the previous 1991 record level in this part of the catchment. But the enormous body of water that sat still for weeks has imprinted itself on the landscape, killing swathes of grass.

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Top End communities cut off by flooding for weeks 'disgusted' by lack of government support

Residents in Timber Creek and Bulla say "the food wasn't coming" during their recent three-week isolation. Things got so bad, neighbours chartered their own helicopter for a food run, and a cattle station donated a freshly killed carcass.

3 months ago·Australia

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