Volunteers have spent another night dealing with fallen trees and leaking roofs after another huge storm rolled through Wagga on Thursday.
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State Emergency Service volunteers were out in force through the night, joined by members of the Rural Fire Service, Volunteer Emergency Service and Fire and Resuce NSW after being indundated with calls for help.
More than 270 requests for assistance have been made in the last two days, Dani Fraser from the SES said on Friday morning, as more more than 100mm of rain fell in parts across the city.
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"Once those lovely storms came through last night there was a number of calls for assistance for trees down and roofs leaking," she said.
"We had all the emergency services out - Fire and Rescue, RFS, VRA - they were also assisting with some of the jobs that came through.
"We had teams from Wagga, Junee and The Rock in helping just because of the sheer number."
SES crews will return to Lake Albert, Tolland, Ashmont and Mangoplah to continue the clean-up on Friday morning.
The Bureau of Meteorology's official rainfall figure for Wagga stands at 36.4mm from 9am Thursday to Friday morning, with 26mm falling after 6pm.
It brings the total falls to 57.6mm since Wednesday morning, however many Wagga residents saw greater rainfall in various parts of the city.
The Bureau of Meteorology recorded 135.8mm in the last two days - 74.2mm to 9am Thursday and another 61.6mm to 8am Friday.
One resident recorded 57mm in Kooringal on Wednesday night alone, and another emptied 56mm from their gauge in Gobbagombalin after the Wednesday storm.
Members of the public joined the organisation's efforts by helping fill sandbags on Thursday afternoon.
They were in demand for overland flooding "where no one was expecting it", Ms Fraser said, with a lot of the sandbags required in Mount Austin and Lake Albert.
In Griffith, flash flooding at the airport has spelled its closure for 24 hours while the clean-up continues.
SES volunteers from Junee also helped out their counterparts in Cootamundra, where there was some flash flooding.
Similar calls for assistance were made in Tumut as it experiences flash-flooding from the Brungle Creek.
Daisy Huntly
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