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More areas of Australia s largest city are on evacuation alert despite the record-breaking rain bomb beginning to ease - as Sydney s Warragamba Dam reaches full capacity and begins to spill.
People on the eastern side of Chipping Norton - next to the Georges River, near Bankstown - have been warned of dangerous and rising flooding, and to get out before 12am.