500,000 people on flood alert as rain lashes Sydney

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Around 500,000 people in Sydney and its surrounding areas had by Thursday been told to evacuate or prepare to flee floodwaters as torrential rain lashed an extraordinarily long stretch of the Australian east coast.

Rivers were rising in Australia's most populous city, home to 5 million, with New South Wales' State Emergency Services Minister Steph Cooke warning of "treacherous weather conditions" over the next 24 hours.

Minor flood warnings were also issued for coastal communities as far as 200 kilometres south of Sydney. Extraordinarily heavy rain brought flash floods to the Queensland state coast 500 kilometres north of the capital Brisbane last week and a south-moving low-pressure system had since brought the rain south of Sydney.

Most recently, a man in his 70s was found in his flooded apartment Wednesday in Lismore, New South Wales. Four people died in the town of 28,000. "We've got high winds and of course we've got the potential for flash flooding because of the already sodden ground out there," Cawcutt told Nine Network television.

 

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