Evacuation areas have been declared for about 17,000 residents with the SES conducting more than 330 flood rescues
The coast of New South Wales has been hit by massive, “potentially life-threatening” rainfall, triggering flood warnings and evacuations in some towns. Here’s what we know so far:
Hundreds of millimetres of rain have fallen in parts of NSW overnight, causing significant flooding along northern parts of the coast.
Further rain is expected on Saturday and Sunday and the Bureau of Meteorology has issued a flood warning across parts of the NSW coast from the mid north coast to Sydney and the South Coast, about half the state’s coastline.
Evacuation areas have been declared for about 17,000 residents in low lying areas of Port Macquarie, North Haven, Dunbogan, Diamond Head, Laurieton, Camden Head, Taree CBD, Taree Estate, Cundletown, Dumaresq Island, Wingham and the Wingham Peninsular, King Point, Macksville CBD, Wauchope, Rawdon, Bulahdelah, Kempsey CBD, Lower Macleay.
Images from Port Macquarie show part of the city centre flooded.
Continue reading...source https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/mar/20/nsw-wild-weather-what-we-know-so-far-about-the-floods-and-evacuations
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