Australia orders more than 30,000 residents of Sydney and its surrounds to evacuate as the country’s largest city braces for what could be its worst flooding in 18 months
"We have seen rivers rise fast, a lot quicker than expected," says Ashley Sullivan, a senior emergency agency official, adding about 32,000 people are under evacuation orders or warnings in New South Wales.
Australia has ordered thousands of people in Sydney to evacuate as overflowing rivers swamped swathes of land and the city's largest dam spilled torrents of water. Waters in some areas may exceed levels reached in deadly flood disasters experienced on Australia's east coast in the past two years, he said.
Roads disappeared into the waters and mobile homes stood in knee-high water, at least one toppled on its side, television images showed.
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