00:01The Todd River in Alice Springs, which is the river system behind me, peaked at about 3.5 metres yesterday.
00:08But as you can see, it has now dropped significantly since then.
00:12Where I'm standing now on the banks of the river was completely submerged by water at this time on Thursday.
00:19So that gives you a little bit of an idea of how high the floodwaters came up and how fast
00:24they've dropped since then.
00:26The Bureau of Meteorology has said that the flash flooding event that occurred here in Alice Springs on Thursday was
00:31an extremely rare weather event.
00:34There were isolated storms directly over the catchment area, which dropped an incredible amount of rain.
00:40Records amounts up to 120 millimetres in some places, which caused the Todd River to rise extremely rapidly and without
00:49much warning to residents here.
00:51There are still a few roads which remain closed today.
00:54However, on the whole, what residents are hearing is that the flood risk has decreased significantly.
01:01The Watch and Act, which was in place this morning, has now been downgraded to an advice level.
01:07And it is expected that the river level will just continue to drop.
01:11But of course, residents have been on high alert because the catchment is so saturated.
01:16Any further storm activity could cause the river to rapidly rise once again.
01:22We have seen in town this morning that cafes and businesses and schools are all sort of back to business
01:29as usual today.
01:30But as people sort of get out and about, the warnings from emergency services are just being repeated that it
01:37doesn't take much flood water to wash away a car or even a person.
01:42So the message loud and clear to residents in Alice Springs today is that if it's flooded, forget it, please
01:47drive to conditions.
01:48And of course, don't cross any roads that might be closed.
01:52Andest Seriously
01:53There are going to be the people.
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