AAP General News (Australia)
04-06-2010
SA: Flooding and blackouts in Adelaide as heavy rain falls
Flash flooding and power blackouts have been caused by heavy rains in Adelaide and surrounds.
The State Emergency Service has been summoned to more than 200 jobs today as the city
records its biggest downpour this year.
An SES spokesman says the Adelaide Hills and the city's western suburbs have been hardest
hit .. with most calls for assistance relating to roofs, drains and gutters.
The Bureau of Meteorology says some 73 milimetres of rain has fallen at Crafers in
the Adelaide Hills .. with 43 mils recorded at Adelaide Airport in the western suburbs
and 33 at Kent Town on the city fringe.
More than seven thousand 500 properties in Adelaide's north have been without electricity
as a result of a thunderstorm which swept across the city early today.
AAP RTV sl/af
KEYWORD: RAIN SA (ADELAIDE)
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