To Australia now, where armies of volunteers have been working through the night sandbagging homes and businesses in Echuca.
Residents in the small town -- which borders the Murray River in northern Victoria - remain on high alert as they confront their second major flood event in less than a week.
With the details, here's our World News Editor Kate Gregan.
Residents in Echuca are bracing for impact.
If the Murray River continues to rise - as authorities predict - the town's mayor, Chrissy Weller, says the town will be 'gone'.
"Our town water wharf level is 94.4m and the flood levels are expected will hopefully top at 95.9 so we've been building our levies up for another meter and a half of water that's due to come."
But in an interview with Today FM, Chrissy Weller says residents won't give up without a fight.
They have built a 2.5-kilometre levee to protect their town from the Murray River.
They call it 'The Great Wall of Echuca'.
The sandbagging has been going on for days -- and the mayor says it's been incredible to see the community come together.
"Everybody's working together, we've had kids there holding sandbags, they would be seven-year-olds with mum and dad filling the sandbags, we've had human chains getting sandbags into areas and the army is there stacking them, they've done all those sorts of areas where we can't get excavators and so it's been fantastic."
But the surrounding area has already been impacted by flood waters -- nearby crops have been washed away.
The Premier of Victoria - Dan Andrews - says primary producers across the state are doing tough.
"So many are without customers, so many are without premises, that is to say, they've got cleanup, they've got equipment that's damaged, they've got stock that are either deceased or in real challenges, crops have been effected, the list goes on and on."
Across the border in New South Wales, the situation isn't much better.
Parts of the state have been declared 'emergency areas' -- which bans people from entering them, and authorities warn flooding will continue for months.
Meanwhile, in Tasmania, floodwaters there are only just receding, and the clean-up is underway -- but -- more heavy rain could be on the way.
SIGN UP TO OUR NEWSLETTER.
Every Wednesday, we send you an email detailing the biggest and most interesting topics that week. We'll send you the conversations, interviews and perspective-bending opinions that piqued our interest. Sign up below.
