Emergency warnings
Residents in the following areas have been told to move to higher ground, or seek shelter:
Emergency warnings
- East Kempsey rural properties and surrounding areas
- Austral Eden and surrounds
- Low-lying areas of Bowraville
- Parts of Wauchope between King Creek and Stoney Creek Road
- Rawdon Island
- Parts of Gumma, including all properties on Gumma Road, Figtree Road, Barnetts Road, Boultons Crossing Road, Wallably Drive, Waterford Drive, Robert Hughes Road and Warrell Waters Road
- The Hatch Road, Blackmans Point, including properties along Mooney Street, Telegraph Point Road and Hacks Ferry Road, and properties along East Road, Hosking Road, Blackmans Point Road, Elfords Road, The Hatch Road and Mcmillan Drive
- Port Macquarie – North Shore, Limeburners Creek and Riverside
- Parts of Taree and Dumaresq Island
- Low-lying areas of Wingham
- Croki and surrounds, including Moto
- Low-lying areas of Bowraville
- Parts of Coopernook, including properties on parts of Coopernook Road, George Gibson Drive, Macquarie Street and West Street
- Oxley Island, Mitchells Island and Manning Point
Road closures
Flooding has caused the following roads to be closed:
Road closures
- Seaham Road between Newline Road and Raymond Terrace Road, Raymond Terrace
- Oxley Highway near Bluffview Road, Rosewood (west of Wauchope)
- Oxley Highway at O’Neills Creek, Long Flat (west of Wauchope)
- Solitary Islands Way, between Coral Street and Post Office Lane, Corindi Beach
- Giinagay Way between Florence Wilmont Drive and Nursey Road, Nambucca Heads to North Macksville
- Oxley Highway between Pacific Highway and Randall Street, Thrumster to Wauchope
- Waterfall Way between Crown Street and Pacific Highway off-ramp, Bellingen to Raleigh
- Failford Road between Pacific Highway and The Lakes Way, Failford (south of Taree)
- Pacific Highway between Manning River Drive and George Gibson Drive, Purfleet to Coopernook
- Melbourne Street between Day Street and Cumberland Street, East Maitland
What’s behind the floods?
An unusually stagnant coastal trough that parked over the NSW Mid North Coast on Monday and refused to budge is behind the weather phenomenon.
Troughs are regions of low-pressure that bring in storm clouds and rain, and this one is feeding off moist winds blowing in from the ocean.
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As a result, some rain gauges have clocked 600mm of rain – about four months’ worth – since Monday.
The Hastings, Manning, Paterson, Hunter, Macleay and Williams rivers have swollen, with several expected to continue rising.
In Kempsey, the Macleay River has breached the levee, triggering evacuation orders in the CBD, while the rising Hastings River in Port Macquarie has forced residents in low-lying areas to flee. The Manning River in Taree has passed the previous record height of six metres set in 1929.
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