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More than 13,300 homes and businesses have been left without power around Sydney's inner west as wild weather batters the city.
Thousands of Ausgrid customers went without electricity on Friday night amid heavy rain.
Residents reported street lights and even traffic lights going down in the area.
Suburbs including Newton and Alexandria have been impacted.
More than 13,000 homes and businesses have been left without power around Sydney 's inner west as wild weather batters the city
'The traffic lights, street lights and shop lights are all out,' one inner west resident told Daily Mail Australia.
'People screamed and ran out of the shops.'
It comes after a week of wet weather lashing most of the country with more miserable conditions on the forecast.
Sydney could cop as much as 45mm of rain on Saturday and up to 20mm on Sunday.
The reason for the wet weather is a high pressure system centred just south of the country drawing in moisture from the atmosphere which will turn to rain as it meets a pool of upper-level cold air over the next few days.
South-east Australia is in for a soaking over the weekend as this cumulative rainfall map for the seven days until Tuesday shows
NSW and Victoria are in for a soaking, while southern WA, eastern SA and southern Queensland will also see significant falls.
The Bureau of
