Heavy rains bring both relief and new dangers to bushfire-hit Australia - Reuters
The weekend drenching represented the biggest sustained run of rainfall in Sydney and surrounding areas for 30 years, dousing some bushfires and replenishing depleted dams across New South Wales, the country's most populous state.
Some rural areas received more rain in recent days than they had in the entirety of the past year - a startling and swift turnaround from the bushfires that have killed 33 people and ravaged large parts of the east coast.
"It's amazing what the smell of the rain can do to people's spirits," Ben Shields, the mayor of the inland city of Dubbo, told Reuters on the phone.
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