Lismore

Disability support worker Scott Broadribb has been documenting flooding in Lismore ever since March 1 and provided two more video updates on Wednesday, ...

"Some hours later, we then saw a significant thunderstorm form over the Lismore area, which led to that extreme flash flooding event. "At that point in time, that advice was the right advice to enable the community to try to restore and work through its recovery process," Mr Austin said at a press conference on Wednesday. "Some hours later, we then saw a significant thunderstorm form over the Lismore area, which led to that extreme flash flooding event. Local resident Scotty Brizzle has been filming the floods and recovering in Lismore since March 1. A submerged car on Dawson Street in Lismore at 11:30am on Wednesday, March 29. "It was dark and I couldn't see anything and I was going to my spot to check the river these last few days and then all of a sudden I'm in flood water. Mr Brizzle found himself in a "hairy" situation when he accidentally drove into floodwaters on Molesworth Street on his way to film the Wilson River earlier in the day at 6:30am. "It was dark and I couldn't see anything and I was going to my spot to check the river these last few days and then all of a sudden I'm in flood water. It was a good reality check on how fast it can actually happen." I had no idea, it was three seconds it took just to be in it," he told Australian Community Media. The woman was reported trapped in her vehicle by floodwaters near Wyrallah Road at Monaltrie, south of Lismore, on Tuesday March 29, prompting a search to begin at 9.50pm. Police spent several hours searching for the woman and her vehicle, however have been unable to locate her. Mr Brizzle said he was "thankful for emergency services" but felt that locals had been "messed around" by the retracting and reinstating of evacuation orders. I had no idea, it was three seconds it took just to be in it," he told Australian Community Media. "I watch these guys on the news and I'm like 'how do these guys get caught in the floodwater?' But it happened in about three seconds. In one video filmed at 11:30am, Mr Brizzle showed flooded streets in the Lismore CBD, which included a submerged car as well as furniture and a bin floating through the floodwater.

Wilsons River at Lismore is at 11.73m and is heading toward a predicted flood peak of 12m or slightly higher tonight. Fifty-five flood rescues have been ...

"I was in the middle of shifting my car and looked out and saw a car in the water … It was an old fellow so I had to go and rescue him." Jake Hoppy from the SES said in one rescue on Waterfall Way in Bellingen, a man "had driven a vehicle into floodwaters, attempted to exit the vehicle and got trapped." "We talked yesterday afternoon about the potential for levee overtop, we talked again during the night about potential for levee overtop, emergency text messages were also issued during the night to the community and the warnings were also issued during the night," he said. A number of properties at Stuarts Point are again experiencing groundwater flooding and the SES is advising residents in the town and surrounding areas to prepare for possible evacuation due to overground and potential flash flooding. "If not for that peak just a month ago, this in and of itself would be a record flood for the city of Lismore and that area." The Wilsons River at Lismore was expected to peak at 12 metres overnight, as a search continues for a 55-year-old woman believed to be missing in floodwaters south of the northern NSW city.