{"id":1411620,"date":"2022-03-30T22:30:36","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T02:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1411620"},"modified":"2022-03-30T22:30:46","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T02:30:46","slug":"as-floods-ease-australias-biggest-state-braces-for-damaging-surf-and-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/as-floods-ease-australias-biggest-state-braces-for-damaging-surf-and-wind\/","title":{"rendered":"As floods ease, Australia\u2019s biggest state braces for damaging surf and wind"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fas-floods-ease-australias-biggest-state-braces-for-damaging-surf-and-wind%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1411620&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2022-03-31T013049Z_2_LYNXNPEI2U01M_RTROPTP_0_AUSTRALIA-WEATHER_1.jpg\" alt=\"FILE PHOTO: Australia hit by floods for second time in weeks\" \/><br \/>FILE PHOTO: A view shows a flooded street following heavy rains in the town of Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia March 30, 2022 in this still image taken from a video. 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MANDATORY CREDIT.\/File Photo<\/div>\n<p>March 31, 2022<\/p>\n<p>SYDNEY (Reuters) \u2013     The entire coast of Australia\u2019s most populous state was told to brace for high waves and powerful winds on Thursday as a low pressure system that left entire towns flooded moved offshore.<\/p>\n<p>The change brought a reprieve for large swathes of northern New South Wales \u2013 flooded this week for the second time in a month \u2013 but it spreads the risk across some 2,000 km (1,200 miles) of coastline including the country\u2019s biggest city, Sydney.<\/p>\n<p>There were still 20 evacuation orders affecting some 30,000 people, but the deluge had eased, Bureau of Meteorology senior forecaster Dean Narramore told reporters. The Wilsons River which runs through regional centre Lismore, among the worst affected by flooding, had peaked at 11.4 metres (37.4 feet), lower than the 12 metres that authorities had feared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re transitioning into a wind and damaging surf threat,\u201d Narramore told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe main concern will be abnormally high tides and also coastal erosion \u2026 and also inundation of low-lying areas, particularly for properties right on the beach.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Two years since the worst bushfires in a generation, Australia\u2019s densely populated east coast has been grappling with record floods as a protracted La Nina weather pattern brings abnormally high rainfall and wind, causing rivers to overflow and leaving thousands of homes uninhabitable.<\/p>\n<p>Near Lismore, the popular tourism hub of Byron Bay, 750 kilometres (465 miles) north of Sydney, had its main street underwater for the first time in decades. Sydney itself has clocked its wettest March and sixth-wettest month overall since records began in 1859, weather experts say.<\/p>\n<p>So far, two people have been confirmed as having died in the current weather pattern, while the police say they are searching for a third person, a woman, believed to be missing in floodwaters at Lismore.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are now regrouping as we look towards the recovery efforts with waters starting to recede,\u201d New South Wales Emergency Services Minister Steph Cooke told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis weather system will (now) make its way down the east coast and we will see other communities impacted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Byron Kaye; Editing by Kenneth Maxwell)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FILE PHOTO: A view shows a flooded street following heavy rains in the town of Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia March 30, 2022 in this still image taken from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":287,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1411620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/287"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1411620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1411620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1411620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1411620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}