Posted on 03/20/2021 10:51:27 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
Greater Sydney’s Hawkesbury Nepean Valley – including major urban centre Penrith – is expected to experience its worst flooding in 60 years as people around NSW are forced from their homes by incessant rain and overflowing rivers.
The state’s emergency service says it will be working beyond Easter on the post-flood clean-up effort and restoration of key services in affected areas.
The Bureau of Meteorology’s Justin Robinson said forecasters believed the Hawkesbury Nepean Valley would experience its worst flooding since 1961, with the spilling of a full Warragamba Dam prompting major concern.
Warragamba was hit by more than 150mm of rain in the 24 hours to 9am on Sunday, and more than 250mm over the past four days.
People in low-lying areas in the Hawkesbury Nepean Valley have been told to protect homes by sandbagging doorways and clearing drains.
The Nepean River at Penrith could rise as high as 10 metres by 9pm, while the river at Richmond and Windsor would not peak until Monday.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Maybe NSW is to Aussies what NYC is to Yankees, but this Yankee has not a clue as what NSW signifies. Time for a brief lesson in geogpraphy.
New South Wales, huge Oz state that includes Sydney.
New South Wales, huge Oz state that includes Sydney.
Wasn’t it just yesterday that NWS was suffering years of record breaking drought and was all on fire with flaming kangaroos? Now its 60 year record breaking floods.
Just goes to show that it all Verages out in the end.
Is this where they were having the draught?
Thank you!
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