Over 350 evacuated to Darwin due to ex-Tropical Cyclone Megan

More than 350 people have been flown to Darwin after severe flooding affected a remote Northern Territory community. Many residents from Borroloola say they have never seen the McArthur River reach the heights it did yesterday. The weather bureau has been unable to gauge the official level because of broken equipment, but it was expected to peak at between 15.5 and 16.5 metres. Evacuation operations have been underway for several days, the first plans being to evacuate people from Borroloola on Monday. Those evacuations were then called off due to the wild weather in the area brought on by now ex-Tropical Cyclone Megan.