00:00We are talking 140 flood warnings, 34 of those flood warnings are emergency warnings.
00:07When we say emergency warnings, they are around evacuations through to either in some cases
00:13we still have very active areas that are in fact emergency warnings that are moving to
00:17high ground or isolating areas.
00:20I'll continue to stress the importance of heeding the warnings and that this is about
00:26us trying to help the community prepare well in advance to any potential flood waters.
00:32We still have a very active situation in the context of the rainfall of 100 millimetres
00:37through to embedded storms.
00:38The embedded storms will continue to see flash flooding.
00:42The flash flooding is a high risk on anyone that is travelling on the roads and again you
00:45need to be situationally aware and not just rely on the warnings.
00:49We will continue to put the warnings out but you cannot just rely on the warnings.
00:53If you live in areas that you feel that you are unsafe or have concerns, that is a very
00:59good time to actually relocate in many cases.
01:01Our focus today very much is in the areas of Taree right through to Kempsey, so there is
01:08a range of communities from Kempsey, Port Macquarie, Coffs Harbour, Bellingen and Yerunga.
01:13They are just to name some of those areas.
01:16That's the areas that we have currently got active flooding.
01:19We continue to have flood rescue calls come in.
01:22We have worked through nearly all of the flood rescues from the previous 24 hours but again
01:27already this morning we have had another 33 flood rescue requests this morning.
01:32That shows that this continues to be a very active environment for us.
01:37I do acknowledge for the communities that we are dealing with in many communities record
01:44floods.
01:45In memory of those local communities they have not seen this level of flooding but again
01:50it is why we have tried to communicate and aim to communicate very early.
01:54Some of the first warnings and messaging around this weather event was over a week ago.
02:00Then the focus in terms of the weather event in terms of mid north coast, then our system
02:04has very much been aligned to providing advice messaging which means stay informed.
02:08This is all on the Hazards Near Me app.
02:10That's why we keep pointing back to the Hazards Near Me app.
02:14Then prior to the flooding that we saw and some of the significant impacts that we are still
02:20feeling now, that's the emergency warnings.
02:23The emergency warnings that are the last line of defence in terms of asking people to relocate
02:28where it is safe to do so.
02:30We are well resourced.
02:31We have significant helicopters, significant boats, lots of frontline personnel from SES
02:38right through to all of the support agencies and the emergency services from every colour,
02:42every emergency service that continues to be there and will continue to be there.
02:47These are very high risk operations.
02:49I will not compromise the safety of my people or any other emergency services people but
02:55these are whilst highly trained people, they are working very closely with the community.
03:00What the community can do is to help us is to heed those warnings, relocate early, evacuate
03:07if it's safe to do so when you receive these emergency evacuation warnings.
03:12If you cannot, please call us and that's why we'll have the capabilities and the support
03:17and the focus that we need to and will continue to have.
03:20I will leave it there for the moment but suffice to say next 24 to 48 hours is still a key focus
03:27in terms of the pointy end of our response operations, acknowledging that we have still
03:32got weather that will continue into the weekend and potentially further weather including rainfall
03:38and significant winds into next week as well.
03:40So we are playing for the long haul here.
03:42In addition to our own resources we do have some interstate resources coming in to support
03:47us and will continue to do so and assess that situation as the weather emerges.
03:52the future.
03:53Also there we will reach out well where, the radiation results from the storm shot in
03:55another, or where we take care of or what we are entering our nations.
03:58Firstly, to suggest the risk of our problems, Linda Sum unit of the storm shot of Distanz,
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