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Residents of Sydney have also been announced to evacuate certain locations due to further increase in localized floods. Floods have already struck NSW where more than 10,000 people have been relocated. More evacuations are in order as levees in Victoria and Nathalia breach.
Chaos takes over as efforts are being made to take out the remaining residents of Nathalia with water from both levees start to breach. Approximately 700 houses are in threat of complete destruction from just the north side levee of the town.
Lee Gleeson, incident controller at the State Emergency Service expressed that it is the heaviest rainfall Sydney has seen in 5 years. The extensive rainfall has completely put a stop to the transport system with rescue and emergency teams making hundreds of rescues.
120mm of rain fell in Sydney’s CBD Thursday morning which is recorded as the highest rainfall since 2007 by the Bureau of Metrology Observatory Hill Weather Station. The rain is creating complete havoc in the city with no railway system, several roads being completely closed, and power breakages in several areas. The spokesperson of the Bureau of Metrology spoke the media saying, “There has been very, very heavy rain and some very strong winds”.
Sydney authorities are also reporting that a few hundred boats at the harbor are in danger of sinking due to the rising water levels. Maritime spokesperson Neil Patchett spoke to radio saying, ‘We’ve got boats filling up with water from all this heavy downpour”.
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