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Australia's flood crisis aggravated on Saturday as a giant inland sea threatened more communities in the southeast. Sandbagging was seen in villages in Victoria, where floods affected one-third of the state. While thousands of people around the state have been urged to evacuate, emergency services warned that those people who choose to remain on their properties in the rural areas could be stranded by the floods. Eastern Australia has been lashed by torrential rains triggered by La Nina, a weather system associated with cyclones, which caused massive floods that devastated Queensland and spread south to New South Wales.
