About 18 thousand people were evacuated due to high water in New South Wales until Monday. Emergency services fear that up to 54,000 people will be forced to leave their homes due to the rain that according to forecasts, it is expected to rain until Wednesday.
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said in parliament there were 35 communities in the north of New South Wales were cut off from the world, and rescue services conducted over 700 rescue operations.
A year ago, vast swaths of New South Wales burned down in unprecedented wildfires after several years of drought that had swept most of the state.
Some of the same areas they are now under water as a result of heavy rains occurring here every 50 years. New South Wales Prime Minister Gladys Berejiklian said she was up 38 sections of the state have been declared disaster areas.
– I do not know any moment in the history of our state where we would have these extreme weather conditions in such a short time in the middle of a pandemic – she told reporters. “So these are hard times for New South Wales,” she concluded.
Thousands of people were embraced 40 flood warnings and 20 evacuation orders along the mid-north coast of the state and on the west side of Sydney. Homes were flooded and destroyed, and several communities lost power.
The torrential rains will remain a serious threat on Tuesday for the north-central coast, where communities face the worst flooding conditions since 1929, the AP agency points out. Communities along the Hawkesbury River also prepared for the worst flood in the area since 1961.
The head of the national flood control service at the Bureau of Meteorology, Justin Robinson, described the effects of rainfall as “a very significant flood for New South Wales.” – I have been a weatherman in the Bureau for 20 years and this is it possibly the worst flood I have experienced – he noticed.
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