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Sydney Floods Far From Over
Sydney floods far from over. As 50 thousand face evacuation. We're looking at far from which means not at all yet. So you can imagine that if something is far from over, as it's used in this headline, it means that it is not at all over. There are plenty more floods to come. And so with this story, it's the third time this year that sydney has flooded. It doesn't normally suffer from that much rain. But now flooding is no longer an unusual event,. Unfortunately for sydney, it seems floods are the new normal.
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