‘The woman was trapped’: Flood rescues across NSW as state turns to clean-up | Laura_R_Chung sarah_keoghan
A group of six police officers used a winch to rescue a woman trapped in her car in chest-high water in fast-moving floods in Kempsey on the NSW Mid North Coast as the state recovers from its latest flood disaster that left more than 60,000 under evacuation orders and warnings on Thursday evening.
While many locations have exceeded their monthly average rainfall in the past few days, Taree has registered its heaviest daily rainfall on record, clocking 305mm between 9am on Wednesday and 9am on Thursday, almost six times its monthly average. Kempsey recorded 133mm in the same time period, almost three times its monthly average.
NSW SES Deputy Commissioner Damien Johnston, NSW Minister for Emergency Services and Resilience and Minister for Flood Recovery Steph Cooke, and NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet during a weather and flood update on Thursday.A Rural Fire Service member, trained as a community first responder by NSW Ambulance, managed to reach the 10-month-old before handing him and his mother over to two members of Surf Life Saving NSW, Lee Archer and Shane Dowsett.
The trio also walked through Enzos Restaurant, which had been wiped out for the fourth time this year by floodwaters. Staff have been working since Monday to clean the restaurant in a bid to reopen on Friday. Weatherzone meteorologist Andrew Schmidt said that, while showers lingered into Thursday morning in the Central Coast and Mid North Coast regions, they cleared up during the day as the worst of the east coast low moves off the coast.Schmidt added that, while there was a possibility of more rain over the Sydney region on Sunday, the rest of the week was looking clear.
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