A one in 50 year flood event is taking place in Sydney and mid-north coast of Australia

[malaise]

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/mar/22/nsw-flooding-rain-forces-evacuation-of-18000-people-on-mid-north-coast-and-sydneys-west

The floods come less than 18 months after Australia was gripped by a bushfire crisis, with many of the same towns impacted

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FLOODS: In a dingy borrowed from the neighbours, Shane Hughes rows in from checking on his mother house which is close to being flooded inside. Behind him sits a friend Michael Carn who is helping him out, Pitt Town, Sydney, 22 March 2021
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Thousands of residents across NSW forced to evacuate amid severe flooding – video
Michael McGowan and Justine Landis-Hanley
Mon 22 Mar 2021 07.16 GMT


Some 10 million Australians remain under a weather warning on Monday night as a group of colliding weather systems cause flooding chaos across swathes of New South Wales, leading to dozens of communities being declared disaster zones and forcing more than 18,000 people to evacuate from their homes.

More than 800mm of rain has fallen in less than a week in some parts of the Australian state, leaving a trail of destruction which stretched from the densely populated suburbs of western Sydney to the sleepy coastal towns of Taree and Kempsey, hundreds of kilometres away on the NSW mid-north coast.

As night fell on Monday, authorities in the state issued a flurry of new flood and evacuation warnings, as rivers west of Sydney rose faster than expected, emphasising the danger had far from passed.

The NSW premier, Gladys Berejiklian, described it as a “miracle” that no lives had been lost, but with another 50-100mm expected to fall across pasts of the east coast again on Tuesday, and river levels still rising, thousands of Australians remained on high-alert.
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Stay safe Aussie friends

[Dustlawyer]

1. From a victim of a thousand year flood (Hurricane Harvey 67 inches in 3 days in my county)

my heart goes out to them! You have the human costs and the cost to livestock and wildlife. There is no where to go and no way to get there if you tried. We had a lot of deaths, human and animal alike. The animal shelters were so overwhelmed they had cages around the shelter outside for months after.

[malaise]

2. Hey you

How are you doing these days?
These disasters shatter lives one way or the other/

[jalan48]

3. This is what climate change looks like. Unfortunately and unlike Covid there will be no quick fix.

[malaise]

6. +1,000

Bushfires and now floods

[EndlessWire]

10. No, bushfires, SPIDERS, and now floods. n/t

[bahboo]

4. can't imagine what kind of dangerous bugs and reptiles and such...

are being let loose by the floods. There are some crazy ass animals in Australia....

[malaise]

5. Here

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/22/horrific-swarms-of-spiders-flee-into-homes-and-up-legs-to-escape-nsw-floods

‘Horrific’: swarms of spiders flee into homes – and up legs – to escape NSW floods
A carpet of brown greeted Matt Lovenfosse as he pulled up to his home on Monday morning. “So I went out to have a look and it was millions of spiders,” he says.

They were running ahead of flood water rising up from Kinchela Creek, pouring across the back of Lovenfosse’s property on the mid-north coast of New South Wales.

“It’s amazing. It’s crazy,” he told Guardian Australia. “The spiders all crawled up on to the house, on to fences and whatever they can get on to.”

The spiders aren’t the only animals he has spotted fleeing the floods. “When the water goes up, the snakes go up into the trees,” Lovenfosse said.

As record-breaking rains batter the NSW coastline and southern Queensland, causing widespread flooding, animals and insects are scrambling to escape the waters.

More at link

[bahboo]

7. ahhhh....talk about the heebie jeebies.....

damn....

[malaise]

8. damn is right

Scary shite!

[Celerity]

9. ...