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NSW bomb cyclone batters coastal communities with heavy rain and strong winds
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yesterday
Authorities in NSW responded to hundreds of calls for help, as a bomb cyclone brings destructive wind and rain to the state's coast. The weather system is causing flash flooding and power outages from the Hunter Region to the Illawarra.
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Lord Howe Island first in line as a bomb cyclone moves towards the New South Wales coast.
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On the mainland, Sydneysiders battled the conditions by boat, by air and on foot.
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How are you finding the wither?
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Lovely, as you can tell.
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I've got to say, this is quite extreme, even for me.
00:25
The State Emergency Service has received more than 1,400 calls for help in the past 24 hours.
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This system is a very dynamic system.
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It is fast moving and very different to recent events that we have seen in New South Wales.
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The impact of the storm is concentrated from the Hunter region to the Illawarra,
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with warnings of isolated rains of up to 120 millimetres and winds of up to 125 kilometres an hour.
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The gusts were capable of bringing down trees like this one in Barrack Heights near Wollongong.
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We have seen a lot more calls for requests of assistance.
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A lot of roof damage, trees coming down.
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SES volunteers door-knocked in Wanborough on the state's central coast,
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telling residents to leave as erosion threatens their homes.
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Just in a very nervous, vulnerable position.
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As you can see out there, it's about two metres from the house now.
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The weather has left more than 16,000 residents without power and throttled airport operations
01:28
in Sydney to one runway, resulting in 120 flight cancellations across the day.
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But the forecasters are warning there's more chaos to come.
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We're certainly not creating a panic situation.
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What we want to do is create a strong awareness of what lies ahead.
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Residents as far south as Gippsland in Victoria could see multiple waves of the storm
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before it eases up on Thursday.
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So, when we're seeing the city of Gippsland at the 37 to bear,
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