Parts of NSW on Flood Watch, Closing schools while searching for a missing woman

Parts of NSW on Flood Watch, Closing schools while searching for a missing woman

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A search for a woman who is swept in flood water in the NSW hunter’s area is underway, after the game has once again hammered Northern NSW in the weekend.
Care providers were mentioned on Saturday evening north of Cessnock after reports that a mini car was grounded because of the floods.
The driver, a 27-year-old woman, managed to get out, but the passenger, 26, was towed away with the strong current.
“We have had a number of areas in the Hunter Valley that have been susceptible to evacuation and warnings regarding flood water,” said Steve Laksa, Chief Inspector of Hunter Valley.

“I would just ask the community to pay attention to those warnings and not to enter a waterway.”

Emergency services say that Riverine increases remain a risk because flood water moves downstream, despite the fact that a heavy weather warning is canceled on Monday prior to more fixed conditions. Source: Delivered / NSW SES

At least 26 schools will be forced to close because of the wild weather, with children from schools at the entire NSW Mid-North Coast, Hunter and Central Coast told you to stay at home on Monday.

“If a school is concluded, it will not be a supervision to students,” said the NSW ministerie of education in a statement on Sunday, and noted that learning from home resources would be made available for students.

A rescue employee speaks with the driver of a car on a snowy road. There is a row of cars behind the first vehicle.

People were stranded in their cars in the weekend in the midst of unprecedented snowfall in the NSW New England region. Source: Delivered / NSW SES

The NSW SES responded to more than 1,455 weekend call-outs with regard to rain, thunderstorms and snow.

Crews who responded to the emergency situation saved a 40-year-old man who was stuck in a nearby tree due to flood water.

The man was swept out of the tree, but rescuers followed him in the water and managed to pull him to the coast and he was taken to the hospital.

Tens of thousands of households in the eastern state spent a night without power, and people were stranded in their cars in the midst of unprecedented snowfall in the New England region.

A flooded river near a road.

Warnings remain in place for residents of the Mid-North Coast, Upper Hunter and New England regions. Source: Delivered / NSW SES

There are still more than 50 warnings for residents for the regions Mid-North Coast, Upper Hunter and New England.

Small flood warnings are current for the Manning, Gloucester, MacLey, Severn, Paterson, Williams and Gwydir rivers.

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