State Emergency Services (SES) issued multiple new evacuation orders and warnings across Sydney on Tuesday as torrential rain continued to lash New South Wales (NSW), leading to river and flash flooding. Due to an East Coast low-pressure system, the Bureau of Meteorology issued a severe weather warning on Monday night for a broad area in New South Wales between Taree and Bega, with conditions set to worsen overnight in regions including the Mid North Coast, Hunter, Sydney, Illawarra, and South Coast. The prediction was accurate, with Sydney seeing 50 to 150 millimetres of rainfall on Monday night, resulting in severe flash flooding and hence new evacuation orders or warnings being issued for several areas of Sydney on Tuesday, including suburbs around Manly Dam, Mulgoa, Penrith, Regentville, Cranebrook, and Wetherill Park. By mid-afternoon on Tuesday, SES reported that Manly Dam, situated on Sydney’s Northern Beaches, had reached amber alert and commenced …