In just 24 hours, Sydney has been thrown into chaos by bouts of heavy rain, leading to extreme flooding all through the city.  

Residents woke up to road closures, flooding homes and rising water levels, with an extreme weather warning continuing to linger.  

Suburbs in Sydney’s southwest were ordered to evacuate overnight, with public transport delays and cancellations affecting the whole city.  

The Bureau of Meteorology predicts another day of heavy rainfall and damaging winds, with severe weather warnings issued for parts of the Hunter, Metropolitan Sydney, Illawarra, south coast, Central Tablelands, Southern Tablelands and parts of Mid North Coast, South West Slopes, Snowy Mountains and Australian Capital Territory.

The damage has been widespread, with the M5 Citybound tunnel flooding and closing as a result.

Meanwhile in the eastern suburbs, a portion of the ceiling at Bondi Junction Westfield collapsed, narrowly missing unsuspecting shoppers.  

Footage shared by ABC journalist James Valentine showed chunks of the ceiling on the escalators however no shoppers appeared to be hurt or injured.

In Sydney’s south, entire roads near Bankstown were underwater, preventing travellers from getting home and out of the wild weather.  

The water from Georges River spread quickly, inundating parked cars with water.  

In the inner west suburb of Rhodes, flood waters tore through homes and wrecked furniture, while firefighters were called to help.  

They  turned off the power supply to the homes, removed compromised power boards and helped residents to bail out as much water as they could.

Tragically, two lives have been lost from the floods, as police located two bodies in a stormwater canal in Sydney’s western suburb of Wentworthville.  

The flood warnings remain in place, according to the Bureau of Meteorology, with authorities warning residents not to make any non-essential trips, and to stay out of dangerous flood waters.  

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