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Thousands of people remain cut off due to floodwaters in northern NSW, while the rainy weather looks set to continue for another week.
Heavy rain has flooded several rivers and cut off more than 2,000 people.
As of Monday morning, 11 flood warnings remain in place, including two moderate warnings for the Macintyre River and the Orara River at Glenreagh.
Approximately 1,500 people in small communities in north-east NSW are completely cut off due to flooding, while a further 2,700 people in and around the coastal town of Iluka are being periodically isolated with the changing tides.
"Some of these communities have been cut off for a couple of days," a spokesperson for NSW SES told the Huffington Post Australia.
"The SES can resupply those communities if they run out.
Most of those people are quite well prepared and resilient."
A further 2,700 people in and around the coastal town of Iluka are being periodically secluded with the changing tides.
However, in other areas flood waters are easing, opening up road access to more than 1,000 residents in small NSW communities previously isolated by floodwaters.
The rain looks set to continue throughout the week, thanks to a low pressure system moving in from South Australia.
The Bureau of Meteorology has issued severe thunderstorm warnings for the Central West Slopes and Plains and Upper Western regions -- including the already flood-affected regions of Nyngan, Brewarrina and Weilmoringle.
The State Emergency Service is urging residents not to attempt to drive or swim through floodwaters, even if the rain has stopped.
As of 8.30am Monday, the SES had received 3,322 calls for assistance and conducted 85 rescues -- 90 percent of which were people in vehicles who had become trapped after driving through floodwaters.
"The temptation for people when the rain has stopped is that they will think its OK to drive through floodwaters," an SES spokeswoman said.
"People don't know if the roads are still even there.
The vehicles are so well sealed now that they will float.
Even in a 4WD, it doesn't take that much water for a car to float.
If the road is gone, the car can tip over on its side.
"If that situation isn't scary enough, if the police see them, they will get fined and the insurance companies won't pay out on people who have driven over flooded roads either."
Two campers also had to be rescued at Bonshaw near the Queensland border after their camping ground was cut off and another man had to be airlifted by the Westpac Life Saver helicopter after he became trapped by rising flood waters at Upper Rolands Plains.
Parents are also being urged to keep their children away from floodwaters and storm water drains in affected areas.
An 11-year-old boy died last Thursday after being sucked into a stormwater drain while playing in a park in Unanderra.
"Floodwaters are also filled with sewerage, chemicals, snakes and spiders and they're just terribly dangerous places for people to be and of course storm water drains are particularly dangerous," the NSW SES spokeswoman said.


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Twenty students died after trees fell on them while swimming in a river during a freak storm in Ghana, emergency officials said Sunday.
Ghana National Fire Service spokesman Prince Billy Anaglate said the "unusual incident" happened on Sunday afternoon, when a group of high school students were swimming at the Kintampo waterfalls, a popular tourist destination in the Brong-Ahafo region.
Anaglate told AFP that a brewing storm caused trees to topple and fall on the teenagers while they were in the water.
"They were swimming in the river when there was a storm, a windy atmosphere that had uprooted some of the trees and they had fallen on some of them - those who were apparently swimming," Anaglate said.
18 students died at the scene while two others died in hospital, Anaglate said, adding that 11 more were receiving treatment, including one of the school administrators in charge of the trip.
"We extend our condolences to the families of the dead and pray for the injured," said the country's tourism minister Catherine Abelema Afeku in a statement.
Accidents ranging from deaths caused by mass flooding to petrol tanker explosions happen sporadically in Ghana because of lax regulations and disregard for rules.

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Spaceweather.com reports the sunspot count has reached a 7 year low
The face of the sun has been blank (no sunspots) for 13 consecutive days.
The last time this happened was April of 2010, near the end of a deep Solar Minimum.
The current stretch of blank suns heralds a new Solar Minimum expected to arrive in 2019-2020.
Is space weather coming to an end?
On the contrary.
The latest in a series of large coronal holes has turned to face the Earth. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory is tracking the opening, which researchers call a "coronal hole" (CH):
The large coronal hole in the sun's atmosphere and has swung into geoeffective position.
Solar wind flowing from the hole is expected to strike our planet's magnetic field and spark G1- to G2-class geomagnetic storms later on in the week.
Regular visitors to The Big Wobble will be aware coronal holes are the main earthquake factor.
The dark patches sometimes covering more than half the entire face of the Sun indicate that the interplanetary magnetic field connecting Earth to our Sun will be experiencing huge fluctuations of energy, these huge fluctuations increase then decrease pressure on our planet causing major quakes and often volcanic activity.
The speed of these fluctuations or solar wind is incredible sometimes reaching speeds of almost 1,000 km/second

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At least 72 people have died in several days of floods and mudslides triggered by heavy rains in Peru, officials say.
The floods - the worst in almost 30 years - have affected over half the country.
More than 800 towns and cities have declared a state of emergency.
The capital, Lima, has been without water since Monday and services are only now being restored. The armed forces have been deployed to help police control law and order across Peru.
There are shortages of food and water in many areas and prices have risen by 5% on average in the past week, reported the BBC.
The intense rains, overflowing rivers, mudslides and flooding being experienced in the country are the worst seen in in three decades, Peruvian authorities said Saturday, affecting more than half the nation as the death toll since the beginning of the year hits 72.
Prime Minister Fernando Zavala on Saturday updated the number of dead to 72 in comments to local radio station RPP.

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The government says 374 people were killed in 1998 during a similar period of massive rains and flooding caused by rains blamed on the El Nino climate pattern.
The rains have overwhelmed the drainage system in the cities along Peru's Pacific coast and the health ministry has started fumigating around the pools of water that have formed in the streets to kill mosquitoes that carry diseases like dengue.
Lima has been without water service since the beginning of the week.
The government has deployed the armed forces to help police control public order in the 811 cities that have declared an emergency.
"The prices for lemons have gone up, as well as for potatoes and cooking oil," said Sara Arevalo, a mother of five who was shopping at a market in northern Lima.
The government has acknowledged that prices have shot up some 5 percent because of the flooding. The highly unusual rains follow a series of storms that have struck especially hard along Peru's northern coast, with voracious waters inundating hospitals and cemeteries, and leaving some small villages entirely isolated.
The storms are being caused by a warming of the surface waters in the Pacific Ocean and are expected to continue for another two weeks.
Even Peru's capital city of Lima, where a desert climate seldom leads to rain, police on Friday had to help hundreds of residents in an outskirt neighborhood cross a flooded road by sending them one-by-one along a rope through choppy waters.
The muddy current channeled down the street after a major river overflowed.
Some residents left their homes with just a single plastic bag carrying their belongings.



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