SYDNEY and the surrounding regions have been lashed with wild weather the last day or so to amusing effect on Twitter (see below).

As a result ACT SES teams are heading up the Federal Highway to help with the massive emergency response.

Joy Burch has wished crews well from the ACT State Emergency Service (ACTSES) who are departing for NSW to assist their colleagues in the weather emergency.

“Very strong winds and heavy sustained rainfall have kept emergency crews busy in parts of NSW over the past few days,” Joy said.

“Tomorrow, 22 ACTSES volunteers and one staff member will depart for a three day deployment in either Northern Sydney Region or the Hunter Region to help relieve some of the NSW SES crews who have worked around the clock.

“ACTSES volunteers will be tasked to carry out a range of duties with the flood and storm response to help NSW communities recover from this weather emergency.

“Our thoughts are with the residents of these towns who have been impacted greatly and also with the families who have tragically been affected with the loss of loved ones.

“The call for help into NSW is nothing new. Staff and volunteers from the ACT Emergency Services Agency (ACT ESA) regularly provide assistance to other jurisdictions when required just as we too welcome support from interstate in our own emergency situations.”

ACTSES crews were sent to the Hunter Region in 2007 following wet weather and to Queensland in 2011 after Cyclone Yasi. Earlier this year, ACT Rural Fire Service crews were deployed to Western Australia to fight fires.

“Operations like this is what our ACTSES crews are trained for and work so well at. Locally, the ACTSES has been kept busy responding to 61 calls for help since 9am yesterday following the windy conditions. This of course could have been much worse if weather conditions had deteriorated to the lengths of that in NSW.”

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