The flooded landscape across the Central West paints a very different picture to that of three years ago when Australia was suffering a record-breaking drought.
Flood-weary NSW communities are bracing for further storms and damaging winds as authorities locate the body of a second person in a Central West town.
The fury after the Northern Rivers floods has not been replicated in the central west. “It’s the response we should have had in February,” said one high-profile Lismore local.
The NSW government will stop future development in high-risk flood zones but Premier Dominic Perrottet says planning “sins of the past” cannot be changed.
Former police officer Peter Jones expressed his frustration at what he says has been insufficient co-ordination,communication and government assistance since flash flooding decimated the town of 700 on Monday.
Anne South has also told of her efforts to urge her elderly next-door neighbour to get inside his home. He is still missing.
One of the state’s biggest clean-up efforts in history is officially under way as Forbes residents brace for the Lachlan River to peak on Thursday morning.
The small central western NSW town was littered with cars,scraps of wall and houses,while two people are missing after flash flooding turned it upside down.
Record-breaking floods have devastated central western NSW communities over the past three days,with hundreds rescued by helicopter and boats after rivers rose.
Henry Hoswell was stranded inside when the property was washed off its foundations during Monday’s devastating flash flooding,his nephew says.
A small village on the banks of the Murrumbidgee has been told to shelter in place as floodwaters head downstream from Hay.