SYDNEY: Thousands of residents in several inland towns in Australia's most populous state of New South Wales evacuated their homes overnight with more than 100 flood warnings in place on Friday after swollen rivers burst banks and neared record flood levels.Major flooding is occurring at Forbes, a rural town in the state's wheatbelt, with the Lachlan river expected to peak at a 70-year high later on Friday, the Bureau of Meteorology said.Along the Murrumbidgee river at Wagga Wagga, home to about 70,000, flooding could peak soon, with levels forecast to be higher than a deluge in 2010, the bureau said.Forbes Mayor Phyllis Miller said floodwaters were lapping against shops in the town centre a
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