Running out of food is ‘high on the cards’ for towns cut off by floodwater

Evacuation centres and their volunteers have provided shelter and cheap meals for thousands of Australians forced to flee their homes by the floods, but isolated towns are beginning to run low on supplies. Kurrajong Bowls Club Co-ordinator Lichell Susan Maris told Sky News an isolated community sheltering in the bowls club is “holding up okay” but a main topic of conversation is when they will run out of food. “That’s high on the cards. The supplies are dwindling, milk, bread, and all the essentials. The bakery’s run out of flour,” she said. “So we just need the government hopefully to deliver us some supplies as soon as possible because we are going to run out”. Kurrajong Baptist Church Minister Steve Kearn said local businesses had helped fly people back and forth, including some “desperate” hospitals runs for mothers to deliver their babies. “We’ve actually had one mum who’s been flown out already and we have another three on standby.”

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