Entire population of Thargomindah forced to flee homes as levee breaks and record water levels of 1974 flood eclipsed
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At first, the levee bank held firm as the flood waters came.
Locals had tirelessly constructed the dirt wall, building on areas where the last major flood had approached the south-west Queensland community.
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