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In the Northern Territory town of Katherine, a huge sigh of relief for locals after the bureau of meteorology said major flooding is no longer expected. Moderate flooding is likely at Nitmiluk, but only minor flooding at Katherine Bridge later tonight. It comes after ex-tropical cyclone Narelle dumped a large amount of rain into already saturated catchments.

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00:01We haven't had the predicted rainfall that was anticipated.
00:06We've only had 67 millimetres of rain here in Catherine
00:10and there was, you know, rainfalls of 150 mil expected.
00:15So everyone, you know, town is actually a little busier today
00:20than it has been over the last couple of days.
00:23But we, everyone is as prepared as they can be here.
00:28We've, all the businesses in the main street are sandbagged.
00:32Every, you know, the shelters are open.
00:34We have 287 people in the Catherine High School shelter
00:39with 67 at McFarlane in full vulnerable people.
00:42And, you know, people are as prepared as we can be.
00:46We're not quite out of the woods yet.
00:48To be facing this a fortnight after, you know, just the last flooding event,
00:54everyone is extremely tired, worn out.
00:57I feel the same as the rest of the community,
01:01but we are all doing the best we can and we are a very strong,
01:05tight-knit community and we'll be all that much stronger for it
01:08when we come out the other side.
01:10Everyone is very prepared.
01:12As I said, we are all as prepared as we can be
01:15for potentially the next flooding event.
01:18But, you know, we do the best we can with what we've got
01:22and we will be a better community for it.
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