A slow-moving storm has hammered parts of eastern Australia's New South Wales province with damaging winds and destructive flooding.
The BBC reported that three people were found dead in the town of Dungog. Homes were swept away as over 12 inches (312 millimeters) of rain in just 24 hours swamped the town of about 2,100 residents 135 miles north of Sydney, according to the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BoM).
New South Wales Fire and Rescue ushered four people trapped in a flooded home and local government urged residents of Dungog to evacuate to a local high school, if possible, due to the severe flooding.
Numerous locations near the coast in New South Wales picked up another 100 millimeters – just less than 4 inches – of rain since 9 a.m. local time Tuesday, on top of heavy rainfall from Monday. The BoM continued flood warnings for stretches of eight rivers in the province, including the Williams River near Dungog.
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