Australia orders 200,000 to flee floods moving towards Sydney

Newcastle, Australia (AFP) March 3, 2022

Australia's emergency services ordered 200,000 people to flee from the path of a wild storm that lurched towards Sydney Thursday after killing 13 people in more than a week of record-setting floods along the east coast. Authorities issued severe rain and wind warnings for a 400-kilometre (250-mile) stretch of coast as water levels rose rapidly - including in suburbs around Sydney, Australia