Sydney Floods Burden 50,000 around Australia’s Largest City

Local residents transport fuel and supplies across the flooded streets on small boats to stranded residents that are cut off by floodwaters which have inundate the town of Yarramalong on the Central Coast, North of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 05 July 2022. (EPA)

Hundreds of homes have been inundated in and around Australia’s largest city in a flood emergency that was causing trouble for 50,000 people, officials said Tuesday.

Emergency response teams made 100 rescues overnight of people trapped in cars on flooded roads or in inundated homes in the Sydney area, State Emergency Service manager Ashley Sullivan said.