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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Graham Readfearn, Nick Evershed and Josh Nicholas

What caused the ‘rain bomb’? How the unprecedented Queensland and NSW 2022 floods unfolded

It was a wall of water. A record-breaking and relentless deluge that lasted days and flooded towns and cities along Queensland’s south-east coast, submerging thousands of homes and leaving at least nine people dead.

As the water spreads to northern New South Wales, how did the so-called “rain bomb” develop? And why has Queensland’s capital flooded again just 11 years after the devastation of 2011?

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