Massive downpours are hitting large parts of NSW, leading to car rescues and delayed, cancelled flights, with drivers being advised to avoid non-essential travel.
A month's worth of rain in 16 hours over Sydney has led to commuter chaos, flight cancellations and evacuation warnings. Flash and riverine flooding was also felt in regional areas as a slow-moving upper-level low drenched central NSW on Friday. Train services faced major delays due to damaged equipment at Redfern in inner Sydney and dozens of flights in and out of the city's international and domestic airport terminals were cancelled.
Prepare to evacuate orders were issued for parts of the Hawkesbury, as well as low-lying Chipping Norton in the heart of western Sydney and Narrabeen on the northern beaches. At Lismore, in the Northern Rivers region, an elderly man taking his chances with flooded roads on the way to visit his wife in hospital ended up stuck with water up to the roof of his four-wheel drive. The river had risen quickly overnight, according to retired lawyer Keith Graham, who swam out to save the man.
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