NSW floods: SES provides natural disaster update

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The NSW State Emergency Service (SES) provide an update on the major flooding as the state is set to face prolonged heavy rainfall. Press conference at 10am, May 22, 2025

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00:00I'll continue to stress the importance of heating the warnings and that this is about

00:05us trying to help the communities prepare well in advance to any potential floodwaters.

00:11We still have a very active situation in the context of the rainfall of 100mm through to

00:17embedded storms.

00:18The embedded storms will continue to see flash flooding.

00:21The flash flooding is a high risk on anyone that is travelling on the roads and again

00:25you need to be situationally aware and not just rely on the warnings.

00:29We will continue to put the warnings out, but you cannot just rely on the warnings.

00:33If you live in areas that you feel that you're unsafe or have concerns, that is a very good

00:38time to actually relocate in many cases.

00:41Our focus today very much is in the areas of Taree right through to Kempsey, so there's

00:47a range of communities from Kempsey, Port Macquarie, Coffs Harbour, Bellingen and Yerunga, they are

00:54just to name some of those areas, that's the areas that we've currently got active flooding.

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