Thousands of Australians in New South Wales (NSW) have been told to prepare to evacuate their home in the next 30 hours after a weather system brought torrential rain to much of Australia and forced authorities to issue flood warnings along the east coast of the country. State Emergency Services (SES) have told the 8,000 plus residents in the town of Forbes—350 kilometres west of Sydney—that they will need to prepare to evacuate after the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) issued a moderate to major flood warning for the next two days. Authorities are warning that waters levels could potentially hit the same levels as the 2016 floods, which caused millions of dollars of damage and left hundreds without their homes. The warning comes as the major dam in the region, Wyangala Dam, overflowed on Nov. 14 after catchments upstream received between 100 to 150 millimetres of rain. Currently, the dam sits …