The massive deluge that has dumped huge amounts of rain across many parts of New South Wales is causing chaos for many grey nomads and other travellers in the state.
About 30,000 people have been impacted by the flooding event across Sydney, the Hunter and Illawarra, with dozens of evacuation orders in place.
Yesterday, a vehicle towing a caravan was inundated after it became stuck in floodwaters in the west of the state, and its occupants had to be rescued by locals. And in another incident, the ABC reports a caravan rolled onto its roof in waters on a road in the south-western Sydney suburb of Camden.
Among the many locations to which evacuation orders were issued was the Wallacia Caravan Park which sits near the Nepean River in Wallacia west of Sydney.
Heavy rain caused chaos on the roads. PIC: Pexels
NSW Deputy Premier Paul Toole described the situation as ‘distressing’ and ‘heartbreaking’ and urged people not to attempt to travel while the risk remained high.
‘I do encourage people if they are going on holidays to put their holiday travels off at moment, wait for the weather events to pass before they start taking holiday breaks,’ he told the Daily Mail. ‘It is a very strong message to everybody out there if you are seeing flood waters, stay right away from them … you do not know what lies underneath, you do not know how deep it is.’
The Bureau of Meteorology’s Jane Golding told the Daily Mail that rainfall was expected to continue along the coast.
‘We are expecting continued rain along the New South Wales coast for the remainder of the week, and that means that the catchments are not drying out,” she said.
She warned that it was still east coast low season and any follow-up systems over the next couple of weeks could mean more flooding.
“We are asking just for a heightened level of awareness as far as what is going on with the weather at the moment,’ she told the Mail.
From the photo shown it is obvious to an intelligent person the Avida brand caravan was NOT being towed before ending upside down. The inference of your story is this caravan was being towed when it came to its demise.
The caravan must have been parked un-attached to any tow vehicle. The stabiliser legs are extended. The jockey wheel is fixed and extended and it appears a window is open.
Maybe flood water caused this event but to infer the cause was a towing accident is false and misleading. However as they say, never let the truth get in the way of a good story.