Roundup: Severe thunderstorms wreak havoc on Australia's Sydney

SYDNEY, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) -- Severe thunderstorms rolled into Australia's most populated city Sydney on Saturday afternoon, bringing about damaging lightning and gusts that disrupted the daily life of local residents.

From 11:00 a.m. local time, Australia's Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) began updating severe thunderstorm warnings roughly every 20 minutes, alerting people to the fast-moving storm cells that could ca