Sydney – The floods were killed in the southeastern coast in Australia, two people, cut off the cities, isolated tens of thousands of the population, and officials warned on Thursday that more heavy rains were expected over the next 24 hours.
The major floods have struck many rural cities in the fisherman’s areas and in the middle of the northern coast in New South Wales, the most ancient state of Australia, where most of the northern coast region faces in the middle of more heavy rains until Thursday.
Police said that the body of a 63 -year -old man was found in a water -flooding house near Tari, more than 186 miles north of Sydney, while another body was discovered that she was a missing man in his thirties in the flood water in the middle of the northern coast.
“We are surrendering to more bad news during the next 24 hours. This natural disaster was a terrible society for this society,” Chris Mins, Prime Minister of New South Wales, said at a press conference.
“There are 140 warnings of floods, and 50,000 people in the range where they were asked to prepare for evacuation and can be isolated, and there were 9,500 properties in the direct vicinity. So, we are far from getting out of the forest here.”
The authorities said earlier that two men and a woman were reported in separate accidents.
More than 100 schools were closed on Thursday, while thousands of real estate remained without strength.
Nicole Samut, a nurse who cares about 67 elderly at an elderly care home, who is also used as a shelter by emergency teams.
“I came to work on Tuesday and did not leave,” Samut told Reuters.
“We are on the hill but behind us is all the water. We are isolated. I never saw high water.”
The emergency authorities said that the nearby Maning River has exceeded a 100 -year -old record.
Sherina Beck was evacuated at 2 am on Wednesday (12 pm on Tuesday ET) from her farm on the river, but her property was washed away, as she washed some furniture later on the coast.
While she looked for the old Bar Beach on Thursday, scattered with the lost debris, death and livestock, for a bent bike that belongs to her late mother, she was subjected to a cow and wound.
“The cow was sad – a wave came. I had to scramble in sand,” she told Reuters.
A slow -moving coastal basin threw about four months of rain over the past two days, which led to cutting the entire cities and residents on the roofs and second floors of their homes, where the rescuers are struggling to reach the area by boat or air.
Minns apologized to people who had to wait several hours for the rescue crews, but confirmed that efforts were intensified with the deployment of 2,500 emergency services employees.
The New South Wales police said that twenty -two people were rescued by a helicopter, including 18 homes and roads flooded by floods, and four were saved from a bridge. The helicopters were directing more boat rescue operations.
The Australian Meteorological Office expects that some areas may receive up to 8 inches of rain until Friday, which weakens the amazing life -threatening floods, before the weather system expects to weaken the south towards Sydney.
