By Calla Wahlquist (now) and Josh Taylor (earlier)
Evacuation orders are in place for several areas around Sydney, with thousands of homes still without power after Sunday’s rainfall. Follow all today’s updates
1.09am GMT
On the issue of landslips — Howard Collins, the chief operating officer of Transport NSW, said the Blue Mountains line west of Springwood, all the way to Bathurst, would be out for “a number of days, if not longer” because of a “very significant” land slip at Leura.
Buses replace #BlueMountainsLine trains between Mount Victoria & Lawson due to a tree in the overhead wiring at Blackheath & a landslip at Leura caused by severe weather conditions.
Trains continue to run btwn Lawson and the City
Please allow plenty of extra travel time. pic.twitter.com/1PSY0ZiA1g
If you don’t have to be on the road, don’t travel.
12.58am GMT
The rain is moving south and falling over bushfire grounds on the NSW south coast. It will be for the Rural Fire Service to confirm, the Bureau of Meteorology’s Jane Golding says, but that rain is falling over fire grounds in volumes sufficient to put fires out.
She says:
It’s a good news story. We’re extinguishing fires.
The slopes are certainly vulnerable enough and what we’ve seen around the Blue Mountains has showed that that has happened.
Source: NSW floods and weather: rain eases but chaos continues – live
