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Damage and destruction caused to the Arkinstall family home by flooding in Stroud in the NSW Hunter region
A massive sinkhole has forced residents to flee their homes with three apartment blocks at serious risk of collapse.
Around 60 residents in Harris Park in Sydney’s west were evacuated on Saturday night when an adjoining construction site filled with water as the relentless rain continued to pound down.
A sinkhole opened up alongside the apartment blocks when, after weeks of rain, the walls of the construction site began to crumble.
The sinkhole threatened to undermine the foundations of two buildings on Parkes Street.
A huge sinkhole opened up next to apartment buildings in Harris Park after an adjacent building site filled with water following weeks of relentless rain
‘Initial inquiries have indicated recent severe weather conditions have caused excessive soil erosion and affected the structural integrity of the buildings,’ NSW Police confirmed in a statement.
All occupants have been accounted for and stayed with friends or family for the night.
The residents of one apartment block have been allowed to return to the building.
However, two other apartments block remain evacuated on Sunday afternoon.
Storms have eroded soil and affected the strength of a construction site at Harris Park, prompting emergency services to evacuate three adjoining apartment blocks last night
The footpath on Parkes Street has also been rules as unsafe and the road is closed.
A team have been working to determine the extent of the problem and attempt to reinforce the site.
Civil engineers, geologists and the construction site developer have all been at hand, with a fire and rescue cherrypicker used to safely allow inspectors access into the pit.
The east coast of Australia has been battered by rain for more than three weeks.
However, fortunately rain is expected to ease this week for Sydney and Brisbane; allowing the state to dry out and recover from the drenching.
Flood warnings are in place for seven rivers in New South Wales and six in Queensland.
This week, in Queensland and New South Wales’ north, six people were killed when heavy rains had catastrophic consequences.
As flood warnings continued Sunday following a severe deluge that cut power to thousands of homes and isolated numerous communities.
A four-month-old sick baby girl trapped in floodwaters has been rescued and taken to hospital during an emergency operation in Maitland
The eastern states of Queensland and New South Wales (NSW) faced a huge clean-up task ahead, but were forecast to experience easing conditions on Sunday following two days of wild weather.
‘Never before have we seen such a huge volume of rain drop in such a short period of time,’ Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk told broadcaster Channel Seven from the state’s capital Brisbane on Sunday.
A six-year-old boy became the sixth storm victim when he was swept away by rough seas at a northern NSW beach Saturday, police and surf lifesavers said.
Eight were killed in a super storm in New South Wales just over a week ago which caused destruction across Sydney, Newcastle and the Hunter regions.
From April 20, the state faces a week of fierce storms, causing catastrophic flood waters and destructive winds.
Officers fear a house in Narrabeen in Sydney’s northern beaches is on its way to sliding down a cliff
SES received 12,420 calls for help in just three days and still face a massive clean up effort, particularly in parts of the upper Hunter.
NSW Premier Mike Baird, who toured drenched townships in the Hunter on Thursday, said it was likely to be a long time before those affected were back on their feet.
‘Homes, cattle – this whole landscape has been completely and utterly devastated,’ Mr Baird said in Maitland after a helicopter trip above the region.
‘I don’t think many of us can imagine circumstances where our life is literally washed away …
‘Personal possessions, all your memories are lost in an instant.’
There were more than 150 life-saving flood rescues.
SES teams were forced to ferrying food and medical supplies to more than 1800 people in the communities of Hinton and Gillieston Heights, where great-grandmother Anne Jarmain died after her car was washed off a roadway.
Insurance companies have received more than 19,500 claims, with losses estimated at $129 million, The Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) said.
Amazing footage has emerged of the moment the bottom floor of a shopping centre was transformed into a raging river after a storm ravaged the south-east of Queensland on Friday.
Local plumber Tom Ballard was called in to help clean up at Morayfield Shopping Centre, just 50km north of Brisbane.
While he was there, Mr Ballard captured the moment the glass walls between the car park and shopping centre entrance collapsed and the water surged in forming waves that smashed into vending machines and trolleys.
The strong current formed a whirlpool at the bottom of a set of escalators, scattering rubbish bins and shopping trolleys
Courtesy of dailymail.co.uk
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