the death The toll from week-long floods that hit Australia’s east coast has risen to 20 on Tuesday, after the bodies of a man and a woman were discovered in flood waters in Sidney.
Police said the pair were suspected of being missing mother and son whose car has been abandoned in a rainwater channel.
Tens of thousands of Residents of Sydney have been ordered to evacuate their homes as severe storms and flash floods inundated expanses of most grand from australia city Tuesday.
the national weather bureau warned of “a tough 48 hours before” for sydney, with 60,000 people subject to evacuation orders and warnings, and cityThe Manly Dam begins to spill.
Intense rains flooded Sydney and home bridges swept away cars and even collapsed roofs of a shopping center and a supermarket.
In the riverside suburb of George room vehicles were semi- submerged and the police had to rescue people failed in their cars by rising flood waters.
A “watery” black summer
State emergency services were stretched thin as torrential rains and intense storms continued in a second week – with flood warnings in place Tuesday for the entire coastline of 2,000 kilometers (1,250 miles) of New South Wales.
“It’s really the aqueous equivalent of the ‘Black Summer’ bushfires,” emergency services spokesman Phil Campbell told Agence France-Presse (AFP).
In the past week the scale of the damage to property and wildlife has been similar to those devastating bushfires, he said, that tore through eastern Australia for month in late 2019 and early 2020.
“We have also had a similar effect on communities in terms of dislocation with closed roads, damaged infrastructure, power breakdowns,” Campbell said.
In the past 24 hours help was called at 100 flood rescues across the state, a number expected rise as the full force of storms carry down on Sydney on Tuesday.
In the city it is north, flood researchers were evacuated from their lab as water from nearby Manly Dam began to pour out over in suburban areas.
The University of The New South Wales facility uses water from the dam to run large-scale experiments on one-in-100- and one-in-1,000-year flood scenarios.
“Ironically, the conditions were occurring just outside”, researcher Mitchell Harley told AFP.
When he arrived at work in in the morning the flood waters were already rising corn soon the downpour caused “Major flooding” in the laboratory.
“We have not seen any impact of this magnitude in 60 years of the lab,” Harley said.
He said the floods that had inundated Sydney in the last few days have shown need consider the impact of climate change on the coastal city of more more than 5 millions people.
“We have a lot of aging infrastructure in Sydney who were designed for historical flood events,” he said.
“Many of this infrastructure needs to be reassessed in the context of climate change.”
‘No way for rebuild’
In the far reaches of the north of New South Wales – where the flood waters this week destroyed home swept away cars and blocked hundreds of Locals on their roofs – a long, slow cleaning-up is in progress.
800 ago people in emergency accommodation in upstate rivers region alone, said state emergency services commissioner Charlene York.
According to the emergency services, nearly half of the 5,000 flood-ravaged homes inspected in the region in the alarm of disaster are uninhabitable.
In Mullumbimby, a town cut off off telephone service, Internet and outside help for days by the floods, local Casey Whelan told AFP that “many of people in my street can’t get flood Assurance.”
“They won’t have way for rebuild,” he said.
Australia has been hit hard of climate change, with droughts, deadly bush fires, bleaching events on the Great Barrier Reef and the floods becoming more common and intense as global weather patterns change.
the death The toll from week-long floods that hit Australia’s east coast has risen to 20 on Tuesday, after the bodies of a man and a woman were discovered in flood waters in Sidney.
Police said the pair were suspected of being missing mother and son whose car has been abandoned in a rainwater channel.
Tens of thousands of Residents of Sydney have been ordered to evacuate their homes as severe storms and flash floods inundated expanses of most grand from australia city Tuesday.
the national weather bureau warned of “a tough 48 hours before” for sydney, with 60,000 people subject to evacuation orders and warnings, and cityThe Manly Dam begins to spill.
Intense rains flooded Sydney and home bridges swept away cars and even collapsed roofs of a shopping center and a supermarket.
In the riverside suburb of George room vehicles were semi- submerged and the police had to rescue people failed in their cars by rising flood waters.
A “watery” black summer
State emergency services were stretched thin as torrential rains and intense storms continued in a second week – with flood warnings in place Tuesday for the entire coastline of 2,000 kilometers (1,250 miles) of New South Wales.
“It’s really the aqueous equivalent of the ‘Black Summer’ bushfires,” emergency services spokesman Phil Campbell told Agence France-Presse (AFP).
In the past week the scale of the damage to property and wildlife has been similar to those devastating bushfires, he said, that tore through eastern Australia for month in late 2019 and early 2020.
“We have also had a similar effect on communities in terms of dislocation with closed roads, damaged infrastructure, power breakdowns,” Campbell said.
In the past 24 hours help was called at 100 flood rescues across the state, a number expected rise as the full force of storms carry down on Sydney on Tuesday.
In the city it is north, flood researchers were evacuated from their lab as water from nearby Manly Dam began to pour out over in suburban areas.
The University of The New South Wales facility uses water from the dam to run large-scale experiments on one-in-100- and one-in-1,000-year flood scenarios.
“Ironically, the conditions were occurring just outside”, researcher Mitchell Harley told AFP.
When he arrived at work in in the morning the flood waters were already rising corn soon the downpour caused “Major flooding” in the laboratory.
“We have not seen any impact of this magnitude in 60 years of the lab,” Harley said.
He said the floods that had inundated Sydney in the last few days have shown need consider the impact of climate change on the coastal city of more more than 5 millions people.
“We have a lot of aging infrastructure in Sydney who were designed for historical flood events,” he said.
“Many of this infrastructure needs to be reassessed in the context of climate change.”
‘No way for rebuild’
In the far reaches of the north of New South Wales – where the flood waters this week destroyed home swept away cars and blocked hundreds of Locals on their roofs – a long, slow cleaning-up is in progress.
800 ago people in emergency accommodation in upstate rivers region alone, said state emergency services commissioner Charlene York.
According to the emergency services, nearly half of the 5,000 flood-ravaged homes inspected in the region in the alarm of disaster are uninhabitable.
In Mullumbimby, a town cut off off telephone service, Internet and outside help for days by the floods, local Casey Whelan told AFP that “many of people in my street can’t get flood Assurance.”
“They won’t have way for rebuild,” he said.
Australia has been hit hard of climate change, with droughts, deadly bush fires, bleaching events on the Great Barrier Reef and the floods becoming more common and intense as global weather patterns change.