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Photos: Heavy flooding hits Australia

Updated 1:53 PM EST, Wed January 30, 2013
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A resident reacts to the damage to his house on Wednesday, January 30, 2013 in Bundaberg, Australia. Parts of southern Queensland experienced record flooding from torrential rains. Floodwaters began receding overnight.
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A resident reacts to the damage to his house on Wednesday, January 30, 2013 in Bundaberg, Australia. Parts of southern Queensland experienced record flooding from torrential rains. Floodwaters began receding overnight.
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Debris lies in a street in Bundaberg, Australia, on Wednesday, January 30.
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Debris lies in a street in Bundaberg, Australia, on Wednesday, January 30.
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A man checks out flood damage to houses in Bundaberg, Australia, on Tuesday, January 29
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A man checks out flood damage to houses in Bundaberg, Australia, on Tuesday, January 29
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Emergency workers patrol flooded streets by boat in Bundaberg on January 29. The coastal town northwest of Brisbane has been particularly hard hit.
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Emergency workers patrol flooded streets by boat in Bundaberg on January 29. The coastal town northwest of Brisbane has been particularly hard hit.
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A teddy bear floats down a street in Bundaberg on January 29.
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A teddy bear floats down a street in Bundaberg on January 29.
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 A man comforts his daughter on the roof of their flooded house in Bundaberg on January 29. More than 2,000 homes have been inundated with water in the town, the mayor said.
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A man comforts his daughter on the roof of their flooded house in Bundaberg on January 29. More than 2,000 homes have been inundated with water in the town, the mayor said.
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 Water engulfs houses in Bundaberg on January 29. The town's hospital has been evacuated as floodwaters advance.
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Water engulfs houses in Bundaberg on January 29. The town's hospital has been evacuated as floodwaters advance.
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An aerial view shows rising floodwaters in Bundaberg on January 29.
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An aerial view shows rising floodwaters in Bundaberg on January 29.
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A man lugs sandbags in front of shops in Brisbane's inner city suburb of Rosalie before high tide on January 29.
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A man lugs sandbags in front of shops in Brisbane's inner city suburb of Rosalie before high tide on January 29.
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Roger Barnes rescues a friend's surfboard from a flooded home in the inner Brisbane suburb of Newmarket in Queensland on Monday, January 28.
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Roger Barnes rescues a friend's surfboard from a flooded home in the inner Brisbane suburb of Newmarket in Queensland on Monday, January 28.
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Tourists and local residents take shelter at an evacuation center in Bundaberg, Queensland, on January 28. Thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes.
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Tourists and local residents take shelter at an evacuation center in Bundaberg, Queensland, on January 28. Thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes.
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Lindsay Enright starts to clean up the flooded area of his Cullen Street home in Newmarket on January 28.
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Lindsay Enright starts to clean up the flooded area of his Cullen Street home in Newmarket on January 28.
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Andrew Cooney and his pet parrot, Jake, survey the uprooted trees outside his storm-damaged home in Bargara, Queensland.
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Andrew Cooney and his pet parrot, Jake, survey the uprooted trees outside his storm-damaged home in Bargara, Queensland.
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Geraldine Marino stands at her front door surrounded by floodwater on January 28 in Bundaberg.
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Geraldine Marino stands at her front door surrounded by floodwater on January 28 in Bundaberg.
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Tony Hall stands in floodwaters as he checks his washing on a clothesline on January 28 in Newmarket.
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Tony Hall stands in floodwaters as he checks his washing on a clothesline on January 28 in Newmarket.
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Cows graze near flooded farms in Gold Coast, Queensland, on January 28.
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Cows graze near flooded farms in Gold Coast, Queensland, on January 28.
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Peter Wison, left, and Beata Jaremko sit on a bench surrounded by floodwaters after the Brisbane River broke its banks on January 28.
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Peter Wison, left, and Beata Jaremko sit on a bench surrounded by floodwaters after the Brisbane River broke its banks on January 28.
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A man films large waves battering the coast on Sunday, January 27, at Snapper Rocks in Coolangatta on the Queensland and New South Wales border.
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A man films large waves battering the coast on Sunday, January 27, at Snapper Rocks in Coolangatta on the Queensland and New South Wales border.
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