‘Evolving situation’: Sydney enters clean-up mode as wild weather moves north | sarah_keoghan
Flooding at the Hawkesbury River continues to ease as weather conditions subside, but with water levels still high, most residents are yet to return to their homes.Flavio Brancaleone
“We’re in a mixed response at the moment of returning communities to their homes, but still responding to the evolving threat up in the Mid North Coast and Hunter and Central Coast, so we’ve got a number of flood rescues ongoing at the moment,” he said on the ABC TV’s“Today we’re seeing more interstate crews arrive, particularly to support the Hunter and Mid North Coast areas with the increased workload and evolving situation up there.
CJ Turner of Shanes Park in Sydney’s west on Tuesday. Turner has carried out search and rescue missions in his runabout boat, pulling neighbours and stricken farm animals from the floodwaters.Sullivan said the NSW SES is urging residents returning home on Thursday to be vigilant as many power lines and trees have fallen down amid the wild weather event.
Commuters and motorists in flood-prone areas are still being urged to avoid non-essential travel on Thursday.due to treacherous weather conditions has safely docked in Botany Bay.
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