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Sydney inundated with a month’s worth of rain in 24 hours
3Jun By AdminsNo Comments

Sydney inundated with a month’s worth of rain in 24 hours

More than a month's worth of rain was dumped over Sydney in the 24 hours to 9am, with more than a hundred emergency calls made overnight. The most persistent rainfall was in inner-city Sydney with Observatory Hill recording 142mm within just 24 hours, smashing the total monthly average of 133mm for June. "Sydney and some of the eastern suburbs had a month's worth of rain in the last 24 hours on Saturday," BoM senior meteorologist Dean Narramore said. Sydney's east was mostly inundated with rain while the city's west received between 25mm and 50mm from Richmond to Badgery's Creek. The State Emergency Service (SES) was called to 140 jobs since 6pm yesterday which included storm damage repairs, sandbagging and and fixing leaky roofs. About 106 of those calls...
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Power outages from Texas storms which have killed four could last weeks as temperatures soar
18May By AdminsNo Comments

Power outages from Texas storms which have killed four could last weeks as temperatures soar

Power outages could last for weeks in the Houston, Texas area of the USA after a destructive complex of storms tore through the area, killing at least four people and crumpling critical power infrastructure. More than 900,000 homes and businesses lost power in Houston's Harris County during the peak of the storm's violent winds, and more than 650,000 remained in the dark Friday afternoon, according to PowerOutage.us. "For some folks, the luckier ones, (power restoration) might be days, not hours. For many, many people, it's going to be weeks and not days," Harris County Judge Lina Hildago said in a Friday news briefing. Hidalgo said the weeks-long restoration timeframe was for homes and businesses tied into the 10 steel power transmission towers downed in the state, seven ...
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King Charles III will attend Easter Sunday service in his first major appearance since diagnosis
27Mar By AdminsNo Comments

King Charles III will attend Easter Sunday service in his first major appearance since diagnosis

King Charles III and Queen Camilla will attend an Easter service at the chapel at Windsor Castle on Sunday, Buckingham Palace officials says, in the first major appearance for the 75-year-old King since he was diagnosed with cancer in February. Officials said Charles and Camilla will be accompanied by members of the royal family at St George's Chapel. The event is expected to be smaller than usual. The King is undergoing treatment and has suspended almost all his public engagements since his diagnosis. (AP) Prince William and Catherine, the Princess of Wales, who announced last week that she is also undergoing cancer treatment, are not expected to attend. The King is undergoing treatment and has suspended almost all his public engagements since his diagnosis. ...
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