Australian Flooding Update: It's Still Happening..

'Amazing' Australian floodwaters enter new towns Excerpts:

Surging floodwaters broke levees in disaster-hit Australia on Monday to inundate more properties in the southeast, as residents sandbagged homes against the spiralling crisis.

Swollen rivers in the southeastern state of Victoria have created a flood zone measuring an estimated 90 kilometres (56 miles) long and 40 kilometres wide, the State Emergency Service said.

"This area has seen unprecedented flooding," SES spokesman Kevin Monk told AFP. "This is just amazing."

As the floodwaters rushed towards the Murray River, evacuation alerts were issued late Sunday and early Monday for the small communities of Pental Island and Murrabit West, home to about 400 people each.

In an emergency alert the SES said that levees around Murrabit West were failing, warning that the area would be inundated in the next 12 hours.

Australian province map for reference..
Descriptions of an "inland sea" aren't an exaggeration..
Meanwhile, in other parts of Australia..

Widespread inundation is still occurring across the north-west and west of the southern state of Victoria. Further north, floodwaters from Queensland are heading downstream to threaten towns and farms in southern Queensland and northern New South Wales.

More torrential rains, of the kind that have deluged parts of Queensland, NSW, Victoria, Tasmania and Western Australia in recent weeks, are possible over the next few months because of the prevailing La Niña weather pattern. So far, 33 deaths have been attributed to the flooding and nine people are still missing in the Lockyer Valley—just west of Brisbane, the Queensland capital—where homes, vehicles and their occupants were swept away in flash flooding.

Now that the water has started to subside in Queensland(Just.. Queensland, mind you..), the adjustments and the adjusters and the assessments for this monumental disaster begin to begin.. And already, the bidding begins high..

So, when the food price crisis occurs, here's a "negative outcome" scenario to chew on, provided by the Huffington Post.

More rainfall is predicted. Much more.