The river surged into Westminster Hall.
East of this image, in Barra Longa — a village about 80km from the dams — the river surged as much as 15m and flooded homes.
The dangerous floodwaters that have spread across roughly half the state of Queensland, on the continent's northeastern coast, showed no sign of retreating on Saturday as river surges continued to make their way toward the sea.
But where the river surged past General Electric's shuttered Hudson Falls capacitor factory, the banks were laced with pipes and the river bed was pierced by well-drilling rigs, all intended to drain PCB's from underground fissures.
It was hard to imagine that in March a storm had brought the river surging over the boardwalk, tearing up its boards and pilings, ripping raised beds out of the ground as it moved toward the house, burying the long narrow garden — 36 by 100 feet — under two feet of water.
Shortly after it passes within 30 mile of the Idaho state capital of Boise, the river surges past the state border into Oregon, close to where it meets the Owyhee River, Boise River and Payette River.
In sparsely populated Wyoming, emergency officials are worried about tiny communities that in many cases are far from help if rivers surge; almost every county is in a potential snow-melt flood zone, and relatively few residents have flood insurance.
