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Thousands told to evacuate before 'life-threatening' Sydney flood

The city’s Warragamba Dam began to spill in the early hours of this morning.

THOUSANDS OF AUSTRALIANS were ordered to evacuate their homes in Sydney today as torrential rain battered the country’s largest city and floodwaters inundated its outskirts.

Roads across the city were cut off and authorities said at least 18 evacuation orders were in place in western Sydney, an area that was inundated with severe flooding in March.

“This is a life-threatening emergency situation,” Stephanie Cooke, emergency services minister for the state of New South Wales, told reporters.

Australia has been at the sharp end of climate change, with droughts, deadly bushfires, bleaching events on the Great Barrier Reef and floods becoming more common and intense as global weather patterns change.

With more wild weather expected in the coming days, Cooke described the floods as a “rapidly evolving situation” and warned that people should be “prepared to evacuate at short notice”.

The city’s Warragamba Dam began to spill in the early hours of this morning, she said, well ahead of authorities’ predictions.

While in Camden, a southwestern suburb of Sydney home to more than 100,000 people, local shops and a petrol station were inundated by floodwaters.

Cooke asked those living along a 500-kilometre stretch of Australia’s east coast, both north and south of Sydney, to consider cancelling their school holiday travel plans because of the weather.

Emergency services conducted 29 flood rescues and were called out more than 1,400 times in the previous 24 hours, she said.

The east coast flooding event in March — caused by heavy storms that devastated Sydney’s west — claimed 20 lives.

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    Mar 9th 2022, 7:50 AM

    Chernobyl no longer sending data? That feels very bad.

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    @Madra: nuke the Russians now

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    Mar 9th 2022, 8:45 PM

    @frank griffin: What happens then? They nuke back, then what? Id.io.tic comment

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    Mar 9th 2022, 9:59 PM

    @Locutus Of Borg: the movie War Games seems apt right about now. Great movie too

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    Mar 9th 2022, 12:22 PM

    I find this to be a rather sober analysis of the current situation. Whether you agree with it or not I feel it’s worth reading – https://unherd.com/2022/03/is-this-ukraines-last-chance-for-peace/

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    Mar 9th 2022, 4:34 PM

    @William Tallon: that was a good analysis

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    Mar 9th 2022, 6:23 PM

    Time to name and shame all profiting from excess charging, be it fuel, rents, food,…

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    Mar 9th 2022, 8:51 PM

    @Peter Willekens: you posted the same comment on more than one article, yet I’ve noticed you’ve not named and shamed anyone who’s profiting from excess charges. Why is that?

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    Mar 9th 2022, 9:06 PM

    @Roy Dowling: Well let’s start with you then. Are you renting? Is it too much? Then tell me who is the owner? What petrol station do you go to? Do they charge too much? What is their name? Are you being ripped off in any other way? Who are they?

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    Mar 9th 2022, 10:35 PM

    @Peter Willekens: Should you be telling us all that information about you? Your the one trying to get this name and shame started but you don’t actually want to partake. Why?.

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    Mar 9th 2022, 5:33 PM

    You can start deporting every Russian criminal and family back home..

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    Mar 9th 2022, 12:25 PM

    The Ukrainian Ambassador to the UK has said refugees don’t want to come to the UK because they want to stay close to their home country.

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    Mar 9th 2022, 2:29 PM

    @Munster1: maybe I read it wrong but have we taken more in and fully agree, does this not say more about the England.

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    Mar 9th 2022, 8:53 AM

    What’s the difference between giving MANPADS & ATGM to Ukraine to knock out Russian invaders and giving them aircraft to do the same?

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    Mar 9th 2022, 9:00 AM

    @Gavin Tobin:
    They were saying on the US News last night that manned planes aren’t what are needed right now and US don’t have any spare backfill planes like F-16…
    I say they are afraid they can’t secure an airport.

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    Mar 10th 2022, 5:14 AM

    You can help

    Offer Accommodation https://registerofpledges.redcross.ie/#/pledging/room

    Volunteering Sort Donations etc iamukrainian dot ie

    Facebook Groups to offer Support for people arriving https://www.facebook.com/groups/379406900679082/?ref=share

    Donate power banks, mobile phones and medical supplies

    Have 2 pin (round pins) into Irish plug adaptors for people arriving

    Offer a job – even something casual a solo parent can do like doing a bag of ironing.

    Offer child support so people can work remotely or go to work a job

    Support Ukrainian owned businesses like The Art of Coffee (im not affiliated)

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