Some residents are on high alert after an overnight drenching, with Sydney’s largest dam spilling water into the already rising Hawkesbury Nepean.
Warragamba Dam has begun spilling over and residents of a town south of Sydney are preparing to evacuate as rivers rise, bridges close and roads flood across NSW.
The overnight deluge led to flash flooding in Picton, to the south-west of Sydney, where NSW State Emergency Service volunteers were doorknocking residents in the early hours of Friday to prepare people to evacuate. The SES had a busy night in areas south of Sydney, which made up the lion’s share of the 447 storm-related incidents in the past 24 hours. There were 291 incidents in the Illawarra and South Coast area, 86 in the Sydney metro area and 12 in the Hunter and Central Coast area.Most of the 49 flood rescues were in the Illawarra and South Coast areas and in Picton and were mostly people trapped in their cars on flooded roads.
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