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Global Ripple Effect  Ad Feedback  As flood waters
in Australia have covered an area larger than the state of
Texas, Queensland Treasurer Andrew Fraser has called the
flooding a "disaster of biblical proportion."  The flooding is
also having a global impact on wheat and coal prices. It has
turned the city of Rockhampton's streets into raging rivers.
"What's happening here in Rockhampton is - well, I don't think
we're going to see it again for another 50 or 100 years," Anna
Bligh, Queensland State Premier, said. "That's the nature of
this event."  Residents in the coastal city are bracing for the
rising waters to peak sometime in the next 24 hours. Hundreds of
people have already evacuated. Local police continue to go door-
to-door to check to see if anyone's still in their homes.
"We're still expecting that this potentially could be the second
or third largest flood that this regio