Australia: Heavy rain douses east coast bushfires but brings chaos

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Australian authorities issued evacuation orders as heavy rain lashed Sydney and the east coast of the state of New South Wales (NSW) on Monday (Feb 10), bringing chaos to the country's largest city while dousing bushfires that have raged since November. Between 200 and 400 millimetres of rain drenched the Sydney area out to the Blue Mountains and farther south over the weekend, the Bureau of Meteorology said, which led to rivers flooding and forced more than 60 schools to shut on Monday.



The NSW State Emergency Service received over 2,700 calls for help overnight, with the number of calls since last Wednesday topping 10,000, SES spokesman Andrew Richards said.

"It's certainly quite a significant event. It's led to a record number of calls to our call centre. It's quite widespread," NSW State Emergency Service (SES) spokesman Andrew Richards said.

"Couple that with gale-force winds off the coast, large six-metre waves, the coastline's getting pretty hammered as well with the high tides and king tides."

The Bureau of Meteorology warned that heavy rain could lead to life-threatening flash flooding for the south coast of New South Wales and also said there could be wind gusts of more than 90 kilometres per hour.

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bookgod2017

The condition in Australia seems like a chapter from the Book of Exodus right now. First the fires then the floods . What next ?? Locusts ??

soothsayer

looks l;ike it! It is like the hammer of God striking them

Arunita

bookgod2017 10-2-2020 07:11 PM
The condition in Australia seems like a chapter from the Book of Exodus right now. First the fires t ...

Exactly what I had been thinking while reading the article. What a traumatic situation the people over there are going through!! If this is not living hell, then I don't know what is.