Residents in low-lying areas of Greater Sydney are in for another anxious night as floodwaters rise after torrential rain hit the city on Thursday, forcing 1600 people to flee their homes – some having done so several times in the past month.
Before this year, the house her grandparents bought in the 1970s had only been evacuated twice: in 2020 and 1989. In 2020, Ms Baluch said, nearly the entire first floor of the house went under. So far, she is relieved “that hasn’t been replicated”. In addition to Chipping Norton, evacuation orders were also in place for parts of Woronora and Bonnet Bay in the city’s south, and Camden in the south-west.
Some of the biggest rainfall swamped the Illawarra, as well as metropolitan Sydney: In Bellambi, 123 millimetres fell from midnight to 4pm; over the same period, 117 millimetres fell at Lucas Heights and 99 millimetres fell in Sydney CBD.
jennynoise whoa hang on ,the way morrison is going on youd think its over ,but its so nice the smh got gongs from the banks for economic reporting
jennynoise ScottMorrisonMP