About half a million people in the Sydney area told to evacuate or prepare to flee floodwaters as torrential rain hit an extraordinarily long stretch of Australia's east coast.
Whole towns are underwater after floodwaters swamped parts of Australia's east coast, forcing people to shelter on roofs and prompting around 1,000 rescues.SYDNEY -- 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.
Major flooding was expected along several rivers in and around Sydney. Dozens of suburbs were on high alert. Floodwaters were also rising in Brisbane, Australia’s third-most populous city 730 kilometers north of Sydney, as severe thunder storms struck. The flooding has claimed 14 lives in Queensland and neighboring New South Wales since Feb. 22, when the body of a 63-year-old woman was recovered from a submerged car at Belli Park, north of Brisbane.
Several Brisbane suburbs remain flooded after the river that snakes through the city center peaked on Monday. “Because of the saturation, creeks are rising very, very quickly — drains, stormwater areas, water is bubbling up from below ground so it’s right across Brisbane,” Cawcutt added.
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