Hunter floods: NSW Premier Chris Minns speaks in Maitland | May 22 2025 - video Dailymotion

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NSW Premier Chris Minns fronts the media at Maitland City Council on May 22 about the ongoing threat of rain and flooding. Video by Sage Swinton, Newcastle Herald

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00:00Obviously this very serious storm front that's smashed through the mid-north

00:06coast and into parts of the Hunter. We want to thank the community for their

00:11patience, their forbearance, the fact that they've been listening to emergency

00:15services over the last two and a bit days. We're seeing levels of rise in

00:21local tributaries, creeks, rivers that we haven't seen since 1920 and many people

00:28would have never seen this level of inundation or flooding in their

00:32communities. So we recognize that this is a new thing for many families and many

00:36communities. We want to make sure that they're safe during this period and to do

00:40that we're going to give the most up-to-date detailed information that we

00:45possibly can, whatever we know, we will give it to the public either through the

00:49hazards near the app, through emergency broadcasts or through local media. So if

00:54you're in the flood zone, if you're going to prepare to evacuate zone, if you're

00:58going to prepare to be isolated zone, it's really incumbent upon you to listen to

01:04emergency services, to make sure that you're making decisions in the best

01:07interest of your family and your community.

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