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WATCH: SES Chief Superintendent Tom Jory urging Illawarra residents to prepare for storm season on September 9, 2024. Video by Adam McLean, Elizabeth Falconer

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00:00Over the last couple of weeks we've seen a pretty significant sequence of storm fronts

00:05come through.

00:06So we've seen around 1,200 individual incidents.

00:11Once again the focus there was in the Illawarra and in the Highlands.

00:15Be proactive and prepare their homes and so we're thinking things like make sure their

00:20roofs are in good repair, make sure they clean their gutters, particularly after an event

00:24because sticks and leaves get caught in the gutters during the event and the next one

00:27comes through and it's much worse.

00:29We're also asking people to have a plan in case they need to leave their home for any

00:33reason at short notice.

00:35When we see intense rainfall and we definitely see more intensity or greater intensity in

00:41places around the escarpment and the Illawarra compared to the broader region is where we

00:47see an intensification of that rainfall.

00:49So that's certainly something to be aware of throughout the season is that those places

00:54can see heavy rainfall that leads to flash flooding with very short notice lead time.

00:59That's why we ask people to be prepared all of the time and be ready to go all of the

01:03time because there are instances where we'll see that rainfall that potentially may not

01:08have been forecast to be as severe and people will have to act very quickly in response

01:13to their own circumstances to get themselves safe.

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