Roads have been ripped up, hockey fields destroyed and shipping containers floated away in this town in central west NSW.
About three-quarters of the historic town is damaged.The cleanup is underway in Molong but further warnings are in place for the area.
"It was just unbelievable how fast the water came," Mary Mulhall told AAP from from the Molong RSL on Monday."It rose really quick and then it sort of went down fairly quickly as well but it just devastated on its way through," she said. It comes after both agencies launched into action about midnight, doorknocking homes, beginning evacuations and helping the ADF rescue people stranded on roofs.
At least two large shipping containers were carried through the centre of the historic town by floodwaters and are blocking the Mitchell Highway. "It may be the case that you don't see flooding around you when those orders are put in place - that is because we expect and predict further flooding moving forward," he said.
One rescue was under way for a man trapped in his car in the central-western town of Alectown who called for help just before 4am on Monday.
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