NSW flooding: disaster zones declared as 18,000 people evacuated in Sydney and mid-north coast

The floods come less than 18 months after Australia was gripped by a bushfire crisis, with many of the same towns impactedNSW floods bring new misery to community devastated by black summer bushfires Heavy rain in Queensland’s south to bring ‘significant risk’ to already flooded areasHow three weather systems are crashing togetherNSW inundated with torrential rain – in picturesSome 10 million Australians remain under a weather warning on Monday night as a group of colliding weather systems cause flooding chaos across swathes of New South Wales, leading to dozens of communities being declared disaster zones and forcing more than 18,000 people to evacuate from their homes.More than 800mm of rain has fallen in less than a week in some parts of the Australian state, leaving a trail of destruction which stretched from the densely populated suburbs of western Sydney to the sleepy coastal towns of Taree and Kempsey, hundreds of kilometres away on the NSW mid-north coast. Continue reading... https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/mar/22/nsw-flooding-rain-forces-evacuation-of-18000-people-on-mid-north-coast-and-sydneys-west #new_south_wales #australia_weather #australia_news #flooding #sydney #sydney