New South Wales Hit By Freak Snow Storm

New South Wales in Australia has been hit by a freak snow storm leaving thousands of people without power and motorists stranded in floodwater.

Gale-force winds whipped up surf with six-metre waves off the coast of Sydney, while all flights in and out of Sydney airport were cancelled, delayed or were diverted.

The storm blanketed the Blue Mountains with snow and the State Emergency Service said it had received 1,629 calls for assistance, 73 from people stranded in floodwaters.

NSW Fire and Rescue Superintendent Paul Johnstone said: "This has gone from coast to mountains - all of Sydney has been involved in these storms.

"It's a combination of everything, there's lightning strikes, heavy winds blowing trees, wires down and also the flooding."

Mark Morrow, the Acting Commissioner of New South Wales State Emergency Services, said: "Most of them [the emergency calls] were about water inundation.

"Of course, there was those 76-odd flood rescues which took priority in terms of how we attended to those calls. But the majority were water inundation to properties either through roofs or water rising up and coming through under doors and that type of thing.

"The other thing of course is with that high wind that we had gusts up to 160 kmph in some parts of Sydney ... we had a number of trees down and branches that fell as well."

He added: "Some power lines have been damaged, but at least no one's homes were really badly damaged."

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