3 dead, 1 missing in NSW Mid North Coast flooding
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Large parts of NSW are experiencing flooding, with more than 50,000 people preparing to evacuate. The Mid North Coast is bearing the brunt of this weather event, with Taree and Port Macquarie particularly hard hit.
Follow our live coverage of the NSW Mid North Coast floods here. Two people have died, at least two people are missing, and close to 50,000 have been evacuated as the NSW Mid North Coast continues to experience record-breaking rainfall that is expected to continue on Thursday.
More than 100 towns and suburbs across greater Sydney, the Central Coast, Hunter Region and Mid-North Coast are at risk of becoming inundated as one of NSW’s most severe flood disasters in recorded history continues to unfold.
The NSW SES advises people in the following area (s) to MONITOR CONDITIONS for forecast heavy rainfall:
Extreme weather conditions are lashing the NSW north coast, with 50,000 currently isolated due to floods, one person confirmed dead and three others currently missing.
Torrential rain continued to lash Thursday, swelling already engorged rivers, engulfing roads and leaving almost 50,000 people stranded. Police found the body
The major flooding threat on the NSW Mid North Coast is continuing to affect locals, with more than 48,000 people stranded while three deaths have been reported.
The body of a man has been found in a flooded home northeast of Taree on the New South Wales Mid North Coast. Police said emergency service crews were called to a property at Moto at about 3pm on Wednesday.
A 63-year-old man has died during the flooding, while emergency services say there's more heavy rain expected.
A second person has died in the devastating floods sweeping across the New South Wales mid-north coast, as authorities express grave fears for two others still missing.
A third person has died in the NSW floods, while the family of one of the victims has remembered their father as a hero who urged emergency services to tend to others instead of him.NSW Police said this evening that officers had recovered the body of a 60-year-old woman – the third victim of the flooding disaster – and that another person remains missing as the flood emergency continues,