Heavy rain and overflowing dams and rivers all combine to threaten flash floods and landslides along the east coast.
MELBOURNE, Australia – Thousands of residents were ordered to evacuate southwest Sydney, Australia’s biggest city, on Sunday, July 3, with torrential rain and damaging winds pounding the east coast and floods expected to be worse than those that hit the region in the past year.
Earlier in the day, she urged people to reconsider holiday travel, with the rough weather having hit at the beginning of school holidays.More than 200 millimeters of rain have fallen over many areas with some hit by as much as 350 mm, the Bureau of Meteorology said, warning of flood risks along the Nepean and Hawkesbury Rivers.
The heavy rains caused Sydney’s main dam to spill early Sunday morning, water authorities said, adding that modeling showed the spill would be comparable to a major spill in March 2021 at the Warragamba Dam.
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