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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.
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.