The extent to which flooding cut off several roads, including a national highway, in the NSW Hunter region a week ago has been captured in aerial images.
"That area is not really suitable for the high level of trucks and things," he said.
"The traffic on there has increased over time through development and with the Hunter Expressway it's now the major route through to Maitland Hospital."Vast flood plains across semi-rural areas went under, where the Hunter River would normally snake through. Sporting fields at Singleton, including netball courts, were squarely in the path of the Hunter River as it spilled over.
The swollen Hunter River crept into the backyards of these homes in the Singleton suburb of Hunterview.The floods peaked higher than the March 2022 flood event, andto several local government areas including Newcastle, Port Stephens and Muswellbrook. Flood waters lapped at the roof of this structure in South Maitland, which sits along one of the many rural roads submerged in the flood.Watch
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