{"id":154960,"date":"2023-01-09T06:22:54","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T12:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/record-breaking-floods-leave-western-australia-communities-isolated-defence-aircraft-deployed-for-rescue"},"modified":"2023-01-09T06:22:54","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T12:22:54","slug":"record-breaking-floods-leave-western-australia-communities-isolated-defence-aircraft-deployed-for-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/record-breaking-floods-leave-western-australia-communities-isolated-defence-aircraft-deployed-for-rescue","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Record-breaking\u2019 floods leave Western Australia communities isolated, defence aircraft deployed for rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/record-breaking-floods-leave-western-australia-communities-isolated-defence-aircraft-deployed-for-rescue2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Record-breaking floods in Australia\u2019s northwest have resulted in many communities getting isolated, Australia\u2019s weather forecaster said on Sunday (January 8). Severe weather system Ellie has created an emergency situation in Kimberly, an area in the state of Western Australia which is about the size of California.<\/p>\n<p>The town of Fitzroy Crossing, a community of around 1,300 people, has been among the worst hit, with supplies having to be airlifted in due to flooded roads.<\/p>\n<p>The Bureau of Meteorology said on Sunday that rain had eased as the ex-cyclone shifted eastwards to the Northern Territory, but warned that \u201crecord breaking major flooding\u201d continued in the Kimberley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Record-breaking floods in Australia\u2019s northwest have resulted in many communities getting isolated, Australia\u2019s weather forecaster said on Sunday (January 8). Severe weather system Ellie has created an emergency situation in Kimberly, an area in the state of Western Australia which is about the size of California. The town of Fitzroy Crossing, a community of around [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}