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More areas of Australias largest city are on evacuation alert despite the record-breaking rain bomb beginning to ease - as Sydneys Warragamba Dam reaches full capacity and begins to spill.

Communities across NSW are bracing for difficult conditions and flash flooding into the weekend.

These are the precautions residents in rain-battered parts of NSW and Queensland have been urged to take.

Minor to moderate flooding likely to develop at Wollombi , Bulga and Maitland during Saturday and into Sunday.

The $62.5 million in grants to councils and state agencies will go towards building and repairing roads, improving stormwater drainage, building new parks, and improving local environments in growing communities.

BoM says isolated severe thunderstorms could hit the Hawkesbury, as well as Narrabeen in the north and Camden in the south-west

Suburbs on Sydney's fringes are facing the threat of significant flooding as intense storms slowly shift south. More than a month's worth of rain...

Record rainfall across Sydney and parts of NSW have caused flooding and widespread damage with authorities issuing evacuation...

Several rivers including those ringing Sydney have, or are expected to, burst their banks as driving rain descends on southern NSW.

Record rainfall across Sydney and parts of NSW have caused flooding and widespread damage with authorities issuing evacuation...