Bondi Beach is in the way of an angry ocean. Photo: Screenshot/Twitter/Siobhan Heanue/Fiona Sheppard.
Australia has been absolutely pounded by weather over the last few months, and the newest storm created huge seas that devastated parts of the Sydney coastline. The world famous beaches are disappearing, boats are being torn from their moorings in the harbor, and streets are flooded.
According to reports, State Emergency Service crews in NSW performed six flood rescues in 24 hours over Friday night and Saturday morning. They received 468 calls for help over the same period of time.
Vision of an angry ocean at Bondi Beach today 🎥 Fiona Sheppard. pic.twitter.com/TXSe1agKo9
— Siobhan Heanue (@siobhanheanue) April 2, 2022
Over the weekend, there was a hazardous surf warning in place for the NSW coast, issued by the Bureau of Meteorology. Bondi Beach and Clovelly Beach were both entirely flooded, and the walls of the famous Coogee Surf Club were battered by waves. Boats washed up on the beach by the ferry wharf in Manly, and a sailboat capsized near Bronte Beach. After emergency personnel headed out to look for the crew, who were assumed missing, the owner reached out to alert them that there was no crew — the vessel had been ripped from its mooring at Gordons Bay and drifted out to sea.
The storm comes on the heels of a very recent one that flooded large parts of the state, including Byron Shire and Bondi. Sarah Ndiayae, Byron Shire’s deputy mayor, claimed that the residents had little to no warning about the recent storm “They [the Bureau of Meteorology] removed the flood warning from Mullumbimby and said that the weather had cleared so a lot of our community were caught out,” she said. “That was really a shock to people. It was really hard to take after everything we’ve gone through and there’s been so many conversations about where the system failed us in the first place.”
Although the NSW area isn’t out of danger yet, conditions are expected to ease as the weather system wreaking havoc moves on in the near future.
