Sydney – The sudden floods on the southeast coast of Australia killed two people and have cut the cities, isolating tens of thousands of residents, since the officials warned on Thursday that more downpours were expected in the next 24 hours.
The main floods reached several rural cities in the regions of hunters and socks on the north coast of New South Wales, the most populous state in Australia, and most of the northern coast region faces stronger rains until Thursday.
Police said that the body of a 63 -year -old man was found in a flooded house near Taree, more than 186 miles north of Sydney, while another body that is believed to be that of a missing man of about 30 years had been discovered in flood waters on the north coast of the north.
“We are preparing more bad news in the next 24 hours. This natural disaster has been terrible for this community,” said New South Wales Prime Minister Chris Minns, during a media conference.
“There are 140 flood warnings, 50,000 people are in the range where they have been asked to prepare to evacuate and can be isolated, and there have been 9,500 properties in the direct neighborhood. Then, we are far from outside the forest here.”
Two men and a woman have been reported as missing in separate incidents, the authorities said previously.
Thursday closed more than 100 schools, while thousands of properties remained without energy.
Cundletown, on the North Coast, has been completely interrupted by floods, said Nicole Sammut, a nurse who serves 67 elderly residents in an elderly care house, which is also being used as a refuge for emergency equipment.
“I came to work on Tuesday and I haven’t gone,” Sammut told Reuters.
“We are in a hill, but behind us is all the water. We are isolated. I’ve never seen the high water.”
The Manning River in the nearby Taree had exceeded a 100 -year flood history, the emergency authorities said.
Sherinah Peck was evacuated at 2 in the morning on Wednesday (12 pm on Tuesday ET) of her country house in the river, but her belongings were swept, with some furniture later washing on the coast.
While looking at Old Bar Beach on Thursday, full of debris and dead and lost, for an treasured bicycle that belonged to his late mother, Peck was beaten by a cow and wound, he said.
“The cow was distressed, a wave arrived. I had to pull the sand,” he told Reuters.
A slow motion coastal channel has thrown about four months of rain in the last two days, cutting entire villages and residents that extend in the ceilings and second floors of their homes, while rescuers fight to access the area in boat or air.
Minns apologized to the people who had to wait several hours for rescue teams, but assured that the efforts had been increased with an emergency service personnel who deployed.
Helicopter had rescued twenty -two people, including 18 wubes of flooded houses and roads, and four rescued from a bridge, said the NSW police. Helicopters have been running more boats of boats.
The Australian Meteorology Office predicts that some areas could receive up to 8 inches of rain until Friday, which causes sudden floods that threaten life, before the weather system weakens and tracks south towards Sydney.
