Heavy rains continue to hammer Sydney, causing flooding in several areas around Australia's largest city with mud-brown swamping homes and roads while forcing thousands to flee. South Windsor resident Alan Dalrymple told AFP that his home had flooded four times in two years but this was the most damaging. "Not much you can do about mate; you just smile and keep going. No good whingeing cause no-one wants to hear people whinge, that's for sure. That's life," he said in front of his flooded home. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES