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Sydney floods: Thousands evacuated as 12 months of rain falls in days causing mayhem

Parts of Sydney in Australia have been submerged as a storm front dumped 30 inches of rain in three days causing severe flooding as residents are warned to prepare for evacuation

Daily Mirror

Sydney floods ‘far from over’ as 50,000 face evacuation

Australia’s largest city is braced for further days of trouble despite positive weather forecast.

Evening Standard

IIT project in India’s Mumbai uses Twitter to issue flood alerts

Residents asked to tweet about floods in their neighbourhoods in order to make real-time geographically specific alerts.

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SES issues evacuation order for Wollombi amid rising flood

Residents along Wollombi Brook have been told to move to higher ground as the State Emergency Service issued an evacuation order.

Newcastle Herald

Kangaroo Valley access road destroyed by floods, leaving residents isolated

Shoalhaven Council says it will be several weeks before dozens of Kangaroo Valley residents can leave their home by car after floodwaters washed away their only access road.

ABC News

Word from The Hill: People's pockets hit again, with rate rise and floods set to boost veggie prices

As well as her interviews with politicians and experts, Politics with Michelle Grattan includes “Word from The Hill”, where she discusses the news with members of The Conversation politics team.

The Conversation

Sydney Floods Burden 50,000 around Australia’s Largest City

Hundreds of homes have been inundated in and around Australia’s largest city in a flood emergency that was causing trouble for 50,000 people, officials said Tuesday. Emergency response teams made 100 rescues overnight of people trapped in cars on flooded roads or in inundated homes in the Sydney area, State…

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‘Scariest floods’ force more evacuations in Australia’s Sydney

Flood crisis worsens in Australia’s largest city, parts of which have seen 3 rounds of flooding in a year and a half.

Al Jazeera

Dangerous incidents at UK laboratories ‘potentially exposed staff to Covid’

Official reports describe leaks of virus-laden fluids, a flood and a researcher bitten by an infected ferret

The Guardian - UK

IOC delivers cooking gas by boats in flood-hit Assam

The government deployed NDRF, Army and Air Force, besides various State organisations, which required an uninterrupted communication network for relief and rescue operations.

The Hindu

Sydney flood crisis expected to worsen fruit and vegetable price hike

Soaring vegetable prices could be here to stay for some time, with the New South Wales flood crisis just the latest in a round of hits driving grocery bills sky-high.

ABC News

Explaining the ‘unusually extreme’ rain and weather that caused Sydney’s fourth major flood in two years

Jury still out on role played by global heating, but hotter ocean temperatures off Australia could have fuelled the NSW storms

The Guardian - AU

'Patently ridiculous': state government failures have exacerbated Sydney's flood disaster

For the fourth time in 18 months, floodwaters have inundated homes and businesses in Western Sydney’s Hawkesbury-Nepean Valley. Recent torrential rain is obviously the immediate cause. But poor decisions by successive New South Wales governments have exacerbated the damage.

The Conversation

Record rainfall displaces 50,000 people as Sydney’s wild weather moves north

Parts of New South Wales have had more than 700mm of rain since the floods hit, with record July rainfall in a matter of days

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More than 100 without power, homes inundated at Sussex Inlet in NSW South Coast amid easing conditions

More than 100 homes on the New South Wales South Coast remain without power after the region was lashed by wild winds and heavy rains again overnight, but authorities say conditions are set to ease.

ABC News

Traralgon flood evacuation order was too late, authorities say after flood report release

Authorities say Traralgon residents did not get told to evacuate until it was too late, after the release of a report which found problems delivering localised flood warnings.

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Fed Govt Announces ‘Uncapped’ Flood Relief Funds As Rain And Damaging Wind Forecast To Continue

The Federal Government has announced disaster relief payments for affected residents in NSW as flooding shows no signs of easing.

Reuters

Australia floods worsen as thousands more flee Sydney homes

Torrential rains kept battering Australia's east coast on Tuesday, intensifying the flood crisis in Sydney as thousands more residents were ordered to leave their homes after rivers swiftly rose past danger levels.

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The Independent UK

Sydney floods impact 45,000 around Australia's largest city

Hundreds of homes have been inundated in and around Australia's largest city in a flood emergency that was threatening 45,000 people

ABC News

South-west Queensland welcomes travellers as tourism slowly recovers from floods, road closures

It's been a catastrophic few months for tourism operators in the Balonne Shire, after floodwaters swallowed hundreds of roads. But there's hope the second half of the year will be brighter.

The Guardian - AU

Cargo ship stranded off Sydney forced to remain at anchor by ferocious conditions

MV Portland Bay anchored in a sheltered position after wind and torrential rain prevented towing the ship to safety

The Guardian - AU

More than 150 rescues made as SES shifts efforts north – as it happened

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The Guardian - AU

Morning mail: Sydney braces for more flooding, interest rates tipped to rise, six die in US parade shooting

Tuesday: A double whammy of interest rate rises expected over next two months. Plus: Winston Churchill’s ‘magnificently idiotic’ platypus quest

Newcastle Herald

Wollombi Tavern goes under after major flood level breached

Weather warnings have been put in place for the Hunter region on Tuesday morning as strong winds and heavy rain sweep the east coast.

ABC News

Heavy rain eases over Sydney as natural disaster declared for flooded NSW

Sydney's wet weather is expected to ease as heavy rain moves north — but the flooding crisis engulfing parts of the city's north west and south west will likely linger for several days.

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