There have been extraordinary scenes throughout Sydney on Tuesday after hours of torrential rain soaked an already saturated metropolis.
Roads turned to rivers and a bridge was inundated, with some suburbs nearly totally reduce off on the northern seashores the place greater than 100mm of rain fell in six hours.
Tens of hundreds of residents have been ordered to evacuate in Sydney’s north and south-west and plenty of extra have been warned to organize to go away, together with some in Manly.
Right here, you possibly can see pictures taken on Tuesday alongside Google Road View photographs of the identical places.
That is the 17-metre-high Roseville Bridge in Sydney’s north – one in all three crossings that join the northern seashores to the town – earlier than and after the floods. The bridge’s drainage system was unable to deal with the deluge.
Right here is Camden Showground earlier than and after the floods. The tables and chairs have disappeared within the second picture and the bins float close by.
Right here is Mackellar Women Campus in Manly Vale, the place highschool college students filmed a automotive being swept away exterior their classroom window.
At this petrol station on Newbridge Street in Chipping Norton, automobiles are changed by a lone boat.
That is the street exterior the Camden tennis courts earlier than and after the floods. The roof of the pavilion is simply seen within the second picture.
These three photographs of an intersection in Windsor present the distinction just a few days makes. The primary and second photographs have been taken on 3 March with flood waters protecting the roads, however on Tuesday the water is so excessive solely half the signal and buildings are seen.
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