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<\/p>\nThree people who drove through flood waters have been rescued, following a weekend of heavy rainfall and storm activity across South Australia.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Several South Australian towns recorded record breaking August rainfall totals across Saturday and Sunday, including 110 millimetres at Lenswood and 101mm at Coromandel East.<\/p>\n
The State Emergency Service said it had received more than 530 requests for assistance during the weather event, mostly responding to flood-related incidents in the northern suburbs of Adelaide.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Meanwhile SA Police said three people have been rescued after driving into flood waters at the intersection of Wingate and Winzor Roads at Hillier.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Police said emergency services were called just after 4.50am on Monday, following reports that a car had driven into a flooded area.<\/p>\n
Police said two occupants of the vehicle, a man and a woman, managed to get themselves out through the windows and safely to the side of the road.\u00a0<\/p>\n
While police were assisting the two people, another car drove into the water and also became stuck.<\/p>\n
The male driver was able to exit the vehicle and was also helped by police to safety.<\/p>\n
Both of the vehicles were washed away by the floodwaters, but police said there were no injuries as a result.<\/p>\n
Commuters in Adelaide’s northern suburbs were also disrupted on Monday morning after the closure of Port Wakefield Road heading northbound, where the road meets the Salisbury Highway.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Motorists heading into the city have been advised to go elsewhere.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Fallen rocks have also closed Gorge Road at Paracombe between Corkscrew Road and Torrens Hill Road.\u00a0<\/p>\n
SA Police advised motorists to avoid the area.<\/p>\n
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Goodwood Road was engulfed by flood water on Sunday night. (Malcolm Sutton)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three people who drove through flood waters have been rescued, following a weekend of heavy rainfall and storm…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[395,22,21,1044,1991,14286,90111,1047,90112,5305,2806,1056,67762,121],"class_list":["post-68390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-adelaide","tag-au","tag-austrlia","tag-car","tag-crash","tag-flooding","tag-hillier","tag-police","tag-port-wakefield-road","tag-rescue","tag-sa","tag-sa-police","tag-salisbury","tag-south-australia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}