The February and March floods across Australia’s east coast were the world’s fourth most-expensive catastrophe, andBrisbane experienced a record-breaking 677 millimetres of rain in just three days in late February, which caused the Brisbane River to swell to 3.8 metres and led to flooding across the city.and leaving four people dead.
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