'Just too much rain': small-town Australians survey damage after massive flooding

Across Victoria and Tasmania, owners of drenched houses and businesses wait for water levels to drop, and the clean-up to beginVictoria, NSW and Tasmania experience flood emergency with thousands told to evacuateGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastLynne Morgan is standing in ankle-deep water outside the house her father built in Seymour, about 100km north of Melbourne. She racks her brain about when it was built, but then remembers it was finished just before the birth of her older sister, who has just turned 70.Flood water from the Goulburn River first appeared in the corner of her back yard at about 4pm on Thursday. By 6pm, her whole yard was under.Morgan, 66, thought the house, in President Street, would be safe. It had survived the last big flood in 1974. But her family told her she should get what she could off the floor just in case. Continue reading...