30,000+ residents of Sydney and its surrounds have been told to evacuate due to flooding

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3 feet of rain sets up 4th round of flood misery for Sydney

More than 30,000 residents of Sydney and its surrounds have been told to evacuate or prepare to abandon their homes Monday as Australia’s largest city faces its fourth and possibly worst round of flooding in 18 months.

Torrential rain since Friday caused dams to overflow and waterways to break their banks, bringing another flood emergency for the city of 5 million people.

“The latest information we have is that there’s a very good chance that the flooding will be worse than any of the other three floods that those areas had in the last 18 months,” Emergency Management Minister Murray Watt told Australian Broadcasting Corp.

The current flooding might affect areas that managed to stay dry during the previous floods, Watt added.

New South Wales state Premier Dominic Perrottet said 32,000 people were impacted by evacuation orders and warnings. “You’d probably expect to see that number increase over the course of the week,” Perrottet said.

More:
https://apnews.com/article/floods-sydney-australia-evacuations-new-south-wales-1ad3cba6a4bfc7a21655e5867d217249

[LeftInTX]

1. When it floods in Australia, there's a drought in Texas

When there is a a flood in Texas, there is a drought in Australia

The two areas never have heavy rains at the same time!

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2. Move along, nothing to see here, except

$40 billion in coal exports.