The federal government’s plan to ramp up the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines from Monday has been delayed by the extreme weather conditions in NSW.
However, “due to extreme weather conditions and flooding in many parts of NSW, vaccine delivery is being affected in Sydney and across multiple regional NSW locations”. Three streets in Sydney’s west were hit with a mini-tornado on Saturday morning, which tore up a number of trees and caused a thousand people to lose power.
Government officials now expect inflows into Lake Burragorang behind Warragamba Dam to be in the hundreds of billions of litres.Warragamba Dam has been spilling since mid-afternoon.One official who asked not to be identified said one scenario considered just yesterday to be at “catastrophic” levels was today rated to be in the mid-range of scenarios.
“I would rather people plan and feel it was a wasted effort and find their home and goods are destroyed because they didn’t think the flood event was going to affect them,” she said. “I know that our members are working very hard. It is a demanding period, they are working day and night,” she said. “We need to make sure we have additional resources in coming days to get them a stand-down period.”NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian says it will be a one-in-five, one-in-10 or one-in-20-year event should it spill over.
And such a beautiful day in Melbs that Sydneysiders always bag out for our weather
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