FILE PIX: A resident paddles through floodwater as a road is submerged in Windsor, north-west of Sydney, Australia, March 9, 2022/REUTERSPIX: Thousands of Australians were ordered to evacuate their homes in Sydney on Sunday as torrential rain battered the country’s largest city and floodwaters inundated its outskirts.
“This is a life-threatening emergency situation,“ Stephanie Cooke, emergency services minister for the state of New South Wales, told reporters. 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.”
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.
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