More than 13,000 people were evacuated from their homes in Australia on Tuesday as floods encroached. About 8,000 of the evacuee were from the town of Wagga Wagga, where river levels crept to dangerous heights and threatened to breach levees. The area in New South Wales already faces severe flooding, and the farming-reliant town of 60,000 was mostly deserted Tuesday as residents lamented the ruin of all their crops, the Sydney Morning Herald reported. The flood threat wasn't limited to New South Wales, however, as heavy rains across the country's east prompted flood warnings in Queensland and Victoria, too. Two people have died as a result of the floods, according to MSNBC, and a Sydney dam has overflowed for the first time in 13 years.
