NSW Premier Chris Minns says the state needs to brace for “more tough times” after a man’s body was found in a flooded home on the Mid North Coast.
Police recovered the 63-year-old’s body from a home on North Moto Road at Moto, north of Taree, around 3pm on Wednesday.
NSW Premier Chris Minns said the state had to brace for “more tough times”.Credit: Sam Mooy
“It’s very sad,” Minns told the Today show.
“Whe there’s these terrible natural disasters, they hot ordinary families in terrible ways and our heart goes out to, obviously, that man and his family and his friends, and the community’s going to be hit hard. We need to brace for more tough times over the next 24 hours, but I’m very grateful that we’ve got thousands of volunteers, and the local community has really rallied in the last 48 hours.”
Minns said 2500 emergency services workers, including more than 2000 SES personnel, have been deployed to affected areas. More than 2000 volunteers were already in place when the storm front hit, he said.
“An unprecedented number of resources have been deployed to the operations are, but when you have these massive natural disasters, high winds, fast-moving waters, rising tides, it can be incredibly difficult,” he said.
Minns urged people to follow evacuation orders, listen to emergency services broadcasts and to not drive through floodwaters.
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