Sydney-Sana
Australian authorities ordered thousands of people in Sydney to evacuate their homes today, after the overflowing rivers inundated large areas of land, while the largest dam in the city caused torrential rain.
"Around 32,000 people have received evacuation orders or warnings in New South Wales," state emergency services official Ashley Sullivan told AFP, noting that water in some areas may exceed levels reached during the deadly flood disasters that hit the east coast. Australia in the last two years.
On the third day of heavy rain on the east coast of the country, rescuers said they had rescued about 20 people in the past 12 hours, some of whom were trapped in cars on flooded roads in New South Wales.
Australia is vulnerable to severe forms of climate change, with devastating droughts and wildfires regularly as well as frequent and increasingly intense floods.
More than 20 people died last March due to floods and torrential rain that swept away cars on the roads.
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