Flooding rivers and heavy rains cut off towns, stopped mining operations and damaged crops in three Australian states on February 18, 2009.[Xinhua/AFP]
![Flooding rivers and heavy rains cut off towns, stopped mining operations and damaged crops in three Australian states on February 18, 2009.[Xinhua/AFP]](http://images.china.cn/attachement/jpg/site1007/20090219/000bcdb95f1d0b06f9360d.jpg "Flooding rivers and heavy rains cut off towns, stopped mining operations and damaged crops in three Australian states on February 18, 2009.[Xinhua/AFP]")