Has anyone any further updates on the floods through the centre of NSW? Any idea of which roads are closed now and did the heavy rain today cause any more damage?
Lorraine (JazzinAround) is camped just west of Forbes resting up after getting a chest infection. She has to get over to the coast then up to Caloundra by mid Dec. Not sure which way she should go as a lot of the roads are reported to be closed with flooding.
She was going to go north on the Newell then across through Tamworth but that road was closed the other day.
lilly31 said
09:30 PM Nov 30, 2011
Road are open from coonabarabran to tamworth now ... Still think the newell is closed at narrabri and Moree ..We sem to have lot of traffic this way so roads must br opem from here to qld ...Raining here now so things can change over night
Happywanderer said
09:36 PM Nov 30, 2011
Thats the way she was hoping to go lilly, Coona to Tamworth. It was closed the other day. Wonder if todays rain will bring the water levels up again. She said the only weather she seems to get on TV up there is Sydney weather but nothing more inland, I will let her know if I found anything more up to date.
lilly31 said
09:44 PM Nov 30, 2011
I just check out the RTA live road information it said all major roads are open on the newell and throught the new england so she should be ok .... If she ring the SES she get more update information then the police i have found ..It light rain here now so should not do any harm unless we get heavy rain again or a big storm ..
Happywanderer said
09:46 PM Nov 30, 2011
I will let her know, thanks lily. That will put her mind at ease.
Happywanderer said
09:19 AM Dec 2, 2011
Nobody else living around the area with more up to date information?
old briney said
11:38 AM Dec 2, 2011
Hundreds of farms and rural properties remain isolated across the region after days of heavy rain, with relief efforts set to continue for several days.
Emergency Services Minister Michael Gallacher on Thursday extended the natural disaster zones to take in Gunnedah, Narrabri, Gwydir, Muswellbrook, Liverpool Plains, Tamworth and the Upper Hunter Shire councils.
This brings the total number of affected areas to 10.
"The natural disaster declarations for these areas activates a number of assistance schemes for home, land and business owners under the NSW Disaster Assistance Arrangements," Mr Gallacher said in a statement.
The shires of Moree Plains, Armidale Dumaresq and Inverell were declared natural disaster zones earlier this week, with entire parts of Moree and Wee Waa remaining underwater after downpours caused rivers to burst their banks
Has anyone any further updates on the floods through the centre of NSW? Any idea of which roads are closed now and did the heavy rain today cause any more damage?
Lorraine (JazzinAround) is camped just west of Forbes resting up after getting a chest infection. She has to get over to the coast then up to Caloundra by mid Dec. Not sure which way she should go as a lot of the roads are reported to be closed with flooding.
She was going to go north on the Newell then across through Tamworth but that road was closed the other day.
She said the only weather she seems to get on TV up there is Sydney weather but nothing more inland, I will let her know if I found anything more up to date.
Hundreds of farms and rural properties remain isolated across the region after days of heavy rain, with relief efforts set to continue for several days.
Emergency Services Minister Michael Gallacher on Thursday extended the natural disaster zones to take in Gunnedah, Narrabri, Gwydir, Muswellbrook, Liverpool Plains, Tamworth and the Upper Hunter Shire councils.
This brings the total number of affected areas to 10.
"The natural disaster declarations for these areas activates a number of assistance schemes for home, land and business owners under the NSW Disaster Assistance Arrangements," Mr Gallacher said in a statement.
The shires of Moree Plains, Armidale Dumaresq and Inverell were declared natural disaster zones earlier this week, with entire parts of Moree and Wee Waa remaining underwater after downpours caused rivers to burst their banks