Sydney: In Australia, hundreds of homes have been inundated in and around country’s largest city, Sydney, in a flood emergency that was causing trouble for 50,000 people. Parts of Sydney have received about eight months of rain in four days. Roads have been cut off, some houses are underwater and thousands have been left without power.
State Emergency Service Manager Ashley Sullivan said, emergency response teams made 100 rescues overnight of people trapped in cars on flooded roads or in inundated homes in the Sydney area.
People in another 50 areas have been warned to prepare to leave, as several major rivers flood. Severe weather is also hitting the nearby Hunter and Illawarra regions.
The Bureau of Meteorology said, some areas have seen 800 mm of rain in four days, almost a third more than the average rainfall Greater London receives in a year.
The downpour is expected to begin easing in Sydney on Tuesday, but gale-force winds are also forecast, bringing a risk of falling trees and powerlines. Authorities are urging locals to heed evacuation warnings after rescuers were called to save people who were ordered to leave two days earlier.
