00:00The Hunter region has had its share of rain.
00:05Now the news that a lot more is on the way.
00:08It's nerve-wracking, can't sleep.
00:11Because you toss it and turn in, where's the water up to?
00:15Jessica Collins has spent the past 24 hours
00:18trapped in her home in the town of Gloucester.
00:21It was a sleepless night as the water levels rose.
00:24It kind of feels like COVID times, you know,
00:27when you're sort of trapped, but lucky for technology and Zoom,
00:32we can communicate to people, which is good.
00:35And she may be stuck for a while.
00:38The low-pressure system that's been menacing the mid-north coast
00:41will soon be heading this way.
00:43Further south tomorrow, that Blue Mountain,
00:45Southern Highlands, Southern Hunter area,
00:48we're talking six-hourly rainfall of 60 to 90 millimetres
00:51and 24 hours of up to 130.
00:54For now, though, resources are concentrated further north,
00:57with hundreds of rescues still underway.
01:00With the dogs and the pups, it's time to get out before it gets dark,
01:05and we've lost power to all the power points.
01:08It's been fine up until about an hour ago,
01:10and then we realised that the bottom half of our house was going to go under.
01:15Everyone was mucking in to lend a hand.
01:17Oh, look, my son is a fireman,
01:20and he come down and had to get me boat to do the rescues this morning,
01:25and now my son's rescuing me and my dog's out of the house.
01:28Amid the heartbreak, there was plenty to be thankful for.
01:31In Woolgoolga, volunteers at the Sikh temple
01:34were busy preparing food for anyone who needed it.
01:37While in Foster, builder Joe Haddon is mustering an army of tradies
01:41to be ready to help with the clean-up to come.
01:44I'm a builder myself,
01:45and I've got a lot of building friends
01:48that have a lot of crew and stuff like that,
01:50so maybe if we can be of some sort of help, come, you know, Sunday or Monday.
01:55For the moment, though, the water levels are still rising.
01:58Like everybody, I just want this to pass without any further loss of life
02:02and get these communities back on their feet as soon as possible.
02:05But for many areas, a warning
02:07that things are likely to get worse before they get better.
02:11they will see you, in the last room.
02:14And I'm saying if I say they could be a single person who gets lost,
02:17then you know, if you want to have a family that they'll get better.
02:19And you are thinking before having a garden
02:23that you need to have trouble,
02:24having trouble poke in there size or something
02:27to allow yourself.
02:28If you have hope for all of these days,
02:32you can move now and get them down.
02:34You think you need these areas,
02:35being in May.
02:36Max Dinsod
02:37and puts you with MailChief Man.
02:38Whatever have you said,
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