Wild storm in Sydney disrupts flights, thousands without power

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A wild weather system pummelled Sydney for a second day on Wednesday (July 2) with the storm forcing the cancellation of dozens of flights, bringing down trees and taking out power to thousands of homes in Australia's southeast.  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00A wild weather system pummeled Sydney for a second day on Wednesday, with the storm

00:05forcing the cancellation of dozens of flights, bringing down trees and taking out power to

00:10thousands of homes in Australia's southeast. The storm forced the cancellation of dozens

00:16of flights, uprooted trees and left tens of thousands of homes without electricity. The

00:22New South Wales State Emergency Service has issued seven emergency warnings as conditions

00:27worsened overnight. We are very grateful that the communities

00:31in these areas heeded our warnings. That has meant that there has not been as much damage

00:37to property and impact to lives as what could have been. But we did see conditions deteriorate

00:43overnight. Intense rainfall reached 150mm of rain in some areas and in the Ulladulla area

00:51over 200mm. As a result, the New South Wales State Emergency Service has issued seven emergency

00:59warnings overnight. Approximately 335 properties have been impacted by these emergency warnings.

01:08A coastal low pressure system, described by meteorologists as a bomb cyclone, smashed Australia's southeast

01:15coast coast overnight with wind gusts of more than 100km per hour, uprooting trees and damaging

01:22power lines. More than 35,000 properties were without power in New South Wales after the storm

01:29overnight. Contas Airways and Virgin Australia have cancelled at least 55 domestic flights in

01:36and out of Sydney on Wednesday. Conditions are expected to worsen before the system eases and move

01:42into the Tasman Sea and then track toward New Zealand on Thursday.

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