Children play in the flood waters outside their home in Vestey Street, Wagga Wagga, in New South Wales, Australia, 09 December 2010. The Tarcutta Creek was expected to peak later the same day, with significant flooding in the area likely to cut the Hume Highway, the Bureau of Meteorology reported in the morning of 09 December that between 40 to 110 millimetres of rain fell on the Murrumbidgee catchment upstream of Wagga Wagga overnight. EPA/STEFAN POSTLES ***AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND OUT***epa Children play in the flood waters outside their home in Vestey Street, Wagga Wagga, in New South Wales, Australia, 09 December 2010. The Tarcutta Creek was expected to peak later the same day, with significant flooding in the area likely to cut the Hume Highway, the Bureau of Meteorology reported in the morning of 09 December that between 40 to 110 millimetres of rain fell on the Murrumbidgee catchment upstream of Wagga Wagga overnight. EPA/STEFAN POSTLES
Children play in the flood waters outside their home in Vestey Street, Wagga Wagga, in New South Wales, Australia, on 09 December 2010. The Tarcutta Creek was expected to peak later the same day, with significant flooding in the area likely to cut the Hume Highway, the Bureau of Meteorology reported in the morning of 09 December that between 40 to 110 millimetres of rain fell on the Murrumbidgee catchment upstream of Wagga Wagga overnight. EPA/STEFAN POSTLES
Residents walk through receding floodwaters in Vestey Street, Wagga Wagga in New South Wales, Australia, on 09 December 2010. The Tarcutta Creek was expected to peak later the same day, with significant flooding in the area likely to cut the Hume Highway, the Bureau of Meteorology reported in the morning of 09 December that between 40 to 110 millimetres of rain fell on the Murrumbidgee catchment upstream of Wagga Wagga overnight. EPA/STEFAN POSTLES
Children play in the flood waters outside their home in Vestey Street, Wagga Wagga, in New South Wales, Australia, on 09 December 2010. The Tarcutta Creek was expected to peak later the same day, with significant flooding in the area likely to cut the Hume Highway, the Bureau of Meteorology reported in the morning of 09 December that between 40 to 110 millimetres of rain fell on the Murrumbidgee catchment upstream of Wagga Wagga overnight. EPA/STEFAN POSTLES
Flood waters inundate Tumut, New South Wales, Australia, 09 December 2010. The rapidly rising Tumut River has begun to encroach on the township with supplies of hessian sand bags being flown in by the SES, as they prepare for the river to peak. EPA/WOLTER PEETERS / POOL
Property is inundated with flood waters in Tumut, New South Wales, Australia, 09 December 2010. The rapidly rising Tumut River has begun to encroach on the township with supplies of hessian sand bags being flown in by the SES, as they prepare for the river to peak. EPA/WOLTER PEETERS / POOL
A helicopter lands in Tumut, New South Wales, Australia, 09 December 2010. The rapidly rising Tumut River has begun to encroach on the township with supplies of hessian sand bags being flown in by the SES, as they prepare for the river to peak. EPA/WOLTER PEETERS / POOL
The Horse and Jockey Hotel in the town of Tarcutta, approximately 50 kilometres south of Wagga Wagga in New South Wales, Australia, on 09 December 2010. The Tarcutta Creek was expected to peak later the same day, with significant flooding in the area likely to cut the Hume Highway, the Bureau of Meteorology reported in the morning of 09 December that between 40 to 110 millimetres of rain fell on the Murrumbidgee catchment upstream of Wagga Wagga overnight. EPA/STEFAN POSTLES
Flood waters inundate Tumut, New South Wales, Australia, 09 December 2010. The rapidly rising Tumut River has begun to encroach on the township with supplies of hessian sand bags being flown in by the SES, as they prepare for the river to peak. EPA/WOLTER PEETERS / POOL POOL
Flood waters inundate Tumut, New South Wales, Australia, 09 December 2010. The rapidly rising Tumut River has begun to encroach on the township with supplies of hessian sand bags being flown in by the SES, as they prepare for the river to peak. EPA/WOLTER PEETERS / POOL POOL
