A wild storm system has moved away from Sydney after pounding Australia's largest city with four days of torrential rain, satellite images showed on Wednesday, although river waters stayed above danger levels, forcing more evacuations.
The year's third major flooding episode saw more than 85,000 people in New South Wales, most of them in Sydney's western suburbs, asked to evacuate or warned they might be asked to do so, up from 50,000 on Tuesday, authorities said.
"Everyone is talking about fixing the same problem ... nothing has happened," a resident of the area told Albanese, in images broadcast by television. "The locals are always prepared, the government is not." The intense system of low pressure off the east coast moved to the middle of the north coast of New South Wales, stretching over 300 km , with the weather bureau predicting more than 200 mm of rainfall in some areas over six hours.
Social media footage showed people using boats to carry fuel and essential supplies to homes cut off by floods. Many piled up sandbags to protect homes and businesses, while emergency crews rescued stranded farm animals.
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