Heavy rainfall to eased over the Mid North Coast overnight

ABC NEWS (Australia)

The torrential rain pounding the Mid North Coast of NSW is heading south. There are warnings that communities in the Blue Mountains, the southern highlands and the southern part of the Hunter could find themselves isolated.

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00:00The Hunter region has had its share of rain.

00:05Now the news that a lot more is on the way.

00:08It's nerve-wracking, can't sleep.

00:11Because you toss it and turn in, where's the water up to?

00:15Jessica Collins has spent the past 24 hours

00:18trapped in her home in the town of Gloucester.

00:21It was a sleepless night as the water levels rose.

00:24It kind of feels like COVID times, you know,

00:27when you're sort of trapped, but lucky for technology and Zoom,

00:32we can communicate to people, which is good.

00:35And she may be stuck for a while.

00:38The low-pressure system that's been menacing the mid-north coast

00:41will soon be heading this way.

00:43Further south tomorrow, that Blue Mountain,

00:45Southern Highlands, Southern Hunter area,

00:48we're talking six-hourly rainfall of 60 to 90 millimetres

00:51and 24 hours of up to 130.

00:54For now, though, resources are concentrated further north,

00:57with hundreds of rescues still underway.

01:00With the dogs and the pups, it's time to get out before it gets dark,

01:05and we've lost power to all the power points.

01:08It's been fine up until about an hour ago,

01:10and then we realised that the bottom half of our house was going to go under.

01:15Everyone was mucking in to lend a hand.

01:17Oh, look, my son is a fireman,

01:20and he come down and had to get me boat to do the rescues this morning,

01:25and now my son's rescuing me and my dog's out of the house.

01:28Amid the heartbreak, there was plenty to be thankful for.

01:31In Woolgoolga, volunteers at the Sikh temple

01:34were busy preparing food for anyone who needed it.

01:37While in Foster, builder Joe Haddon is mustering an army of tradies

01:41to be ready to help with the clean-up to come.

01:44I'm a builder myself,

01:45and I've got a lot of building friends

01:48that have a lot of crew and stuff like that,

01:50so maybe if we can be of some sort of help, come, you know, Sunday or Monday.

01:55For the moment, though, the water levels are still rising.

01:58Like everybody, I just want this to pass without any further loss of life

02:02and get these communities back on their feet as soon as possible.

02:05But for many areas, a warning

02:07that things are likely to get worse before they get better.

02:11they will see you, in the last room.

02:14And I'm saying if I say they could be a single person who gets lost,

02:17then you know, if you want to have a family that they'll get better.

02:19And you are thinking before having a garden

02:23that you need to have trouble,

02:24having trouble poke in there size or something

02:27to allow yourself.

02:28If you have hope for all of these days,

02:32you can move now and get them down.

02:34You think you need these areas,

02:35being in May.

02:36Max Dinsod

02:37and puts you with MailChief Man.

02:38Whatever have you said,

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