Heavy rain and wild winds push homes to breaking point

Homes person deed saturation constituent arsenic wild weather and dense downpours engulf millions of residences on the eastbound coast.

Rainwater flooded homes successful interior Sydney and seeped done roofs successful Wollongong aft three consecutive days of dense rainfall crossed the cardinal NSW coast.

At slightest two tornadoes were reported crossed the state, including 1 captured connected camera from a occurrence tower astatine Young arsenic it tore done a tract successful NSW’s southwestern slopes region.

The rainfall continued into Thursday, with Newport connected Sydney’s Northern Beaches signaling 122mm of rainfall successful the time to 9am and Cronulla notching 147mm.

It made this period 1 of Sydney’s wettest Septembers connected record.

Multiple terrible weather warnings stay successful place, including alerts for damaging winds and hazardous surf crossed NSW.

The State Emergency Service has received much than 850 calls successful 24 hours, mostly owed to dense rain.

During 50 minutes connected Wednesday, the work received a surge of calls from crossed Sydney from those stranded successful their homes oregon trapped successful vehicles connected flooded roads.

A radical of hikers was rescued astatine Wattamolla, south of Sydney, aft dense rainfall deed from 1pm connected Wednesday.

Reprieve is connected the skyline arsenic conditions are expected to easiness connected Thursday.

But respective warnings stay successful place.

Parts of the Hunter, Mid North Coast and Northern Tablelands are connected alert for damaging winds.

Gusts with highest speeds of 90km/h are expected to past into the day owed to a analyzable low-pressure system, the Bureau of Meteorology says.

Meanwhile, a hazardous surf warning has been issued for Macquarie Coast, Hunter Coast, Sydney Coast, Illawarra Coast and Batemans Coast.

Large and almighty south-to-southeast waves are forecast to batter the bluish and cardinal coasts done to aboriginal Friday, bringing hazardous surf and accrued hazard of damaging waves and coastal erosion.

NSW Police Marine Area Command has advised radical to see staying retired of the water and debar walking adjacent surf-exposed areas.

Source: AAP