Around 1-hundred flood warnings are in place many at emergency level. Almost 50-thousand people are isolated and relying on the emergency services for help.
00:00This mother and son had been trapped in their home for three days.
00:06With the water levels still rising, they decided it was time to leave.
00:11The whole bottom house, like my room and everything in the bathroom is just full of water.
00:16Right across the Hunter, roads are closed and river levels are on the rise.
00:21Further north at Woolgoolga, this couple's trip around Australia hit an unexpected roadblock.
00:27We just came from Byron and it was lovely and sunny there and then just got as far as down here and heaven's open really.
00:33They're on their way to Sydney but found the road ahead closed due to flooding.
00:37Just looking up there now, trying to plan a route which is the best way to get down.
00:41We're just worried that we'll get stuck somewhere really is the main thing but we're just trying to see what's the best way.
00:46Massage therapist Colin Rossi is also trying to get to Sydney but with no way through, he's turning round and heading home.
00:54I'm cancelling all my clients, putting them onto next week if I can get to clinic next week and then heading back home while I still can.
01:01From Evans Head all the way down the coast of Foster, the weather was wreaking havoc.
01:06Disastrous really, a flood scenario unfolding through parts of the mid north coast.
01:11There was a nervous wait at Raymond Terrace in the Hunter as the Hunter River kept on rising.
01:16Last time was about five years ago and this one worse.
01:22Are you worried at all?
01:24No, I'm not quite worried. It's good.
01:27Residents here have had a welcome reprieve with very little rain this afternoon.
01:31But no one is breathing a sigh of relief just yet.
01:34And their thoughts are with those suffering the worst of it further north.
01:38This family camping supplies business on the Hastings River at Port Macquarie was underwater.
01:44With all hands on deck to shift what they could to higher ground.
01:47Just packing up all the bait fridgers, just moving all the cooking stuff, moving all the boats, making sure they're safe.
01:55And a warning, it's not over yet.
01:57We are not out of the woods. Unfortunately, we're expecting heavy rainfall, potentially isolated rainfall of up to 200 mils in the next 24 hours, having had 200 mils yesterday and 150 mils the day before.
02:13By Friday, the rain should be moving inland, but the rivers will keep rising into the weekend.
