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Floods threaten Queensland town’s levees

Thousands of residents of the rural Queensland town of St George are waiting anxiously to see if the town's levees will hold up to a record flood. About 3,000 of the town's residents left on Sunday after a mandatory evacuation order was issued in the biggest operation of its kind in Queensland's history.On Monday, emergency crews scrambled to complete a 2.5-mile (4km) dirt…