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Sydney, July 5: Rain-swollen rivers splashed mud-brown floods across large areas of Sydney on Tuesday, flooding houses and roadways and displacing hundreds of people. In New South Wales, officials reported that emergency services have now ordered approximately 50,000 residents to evacuate or make preparations to leave the rising seas.
With the assistance of 100 army troops stationed in the state, emergency personnel performed 22 water rescues in Sydney over the course of one night, according to reports.
19,000 houses lost power as a result of the flooding, persistent rain, and strong winds, according to officials.
With droughts, fatal bushfires, bleaching events on the Great Barrier Reef, and floods growing more frequent and severe as global weather patterns shift, Australia has been at the front lines of climate change.
After pouring rain on Sydney for four days, meteorologists anticipated the weather front would travel northward along the east coast.
In 23 flooded areas of New South Wales, the federal government has declared a natural disaster, enabling aid payments to affected citizens.
In the worst-hit regions, where the earth was already heavily soaked, the water rose quickly and soon began to lap at the walls of several homes in the western Sydney suburbs.
The east coast was hit by floods twice, once in 2021 and again in March of this year, both of which resulted in more than 20 fatalities.
