The small rural town of Coraki has been decimated by flood waters, overwhelming the SES, and forcing locals to take recovery efforts into their own hands.
The town was split in half by the recent floods, with some residents remaining isolated waiting on flood waters to recede. Many locals have been forced to camp out in their cars as their homes are either destroyed or inaccessible.
Volunteers are doing their best to ferry drinking water, food supplies, fuel and even food for livestock to residents who remain trapped by the flood waters. As the rain continues to fall in Coraki, there is a desperate scramble to get supplies out to those in the most remote parts of the region as flood waters could begin to rise again at any stage.
The ADF has been called in to assist, but it is mainly the work of volunteers that has kept everyone going. Locals believe that they have been abandoned by the state government and when the NSW Deputy Premier Paul Toole was asked about the government’s response, he merely stated that “The needs in Coraki will be very different to those in Lismore, very different to those over in Tweed.”
Heavy rainfall is forecast to continue to hit Coraki and the surrounding region for the next few days.
