Sydney floods captured on social media as roads turn into rivers and cars become boats

Residents wrote stay safe everyone' alongside videos of chaos caused by flooding that hit Australia's largest city on Tuesday

• Two dead, roads inundated, homes and suburbs across the city swamped
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Sydney residents have pulled out their phones and posted videos on social media as cars floated down flooded streets, bridges were inundated, homes soaked and Manly Dam spilled - threatening hundreds of homes - while torrential rain continued to fall on Australia's biggest city claiming two lives.

The Bureau of Meteorology issued flood warnings while the SES ordered the urgent evacuation of tens and thousands of people in Sydney on Tuesday.