Hundreds of terrified residents across NSW could lose their homes as life-threatening flash flooding pummels houses, with emergency experts warning people to stay indoors or evacuate. With unrelenting rainfall up of to 100mm, parts of NSW's coast have already been ordered to evacuate due to the wild weather stretching from the mid-north coast of NSW down to Illawarra, south of Sydney. NSW State Emergency Service (SES) has ordered evacuations in suburbs including Taree, Dungog, Wingham, Port Macquarie and Laurieton. Evacuation warnings area are also in place for low-lying areas including Macksville, Kings Point, Crescent Head and Kempsey. 'Some of those locations will probably have floods of record in those areas,' SES spokesman David Weber said.

Source: Daily Mail March 20, 2021 00:02 UTC