Exhausted residents are in “disbelief” as evacuation orders were issued late Monday for parts of north and south Lismore and low-lying areas of Kyogle ahead of predicted torrential rain and “life-threatening” flooding.
Locals were told to leave by 10pm on Monday amid fears that NSW’s already-soaked northern rivers region could get up to 140 millimetres of rain in six hours, and up to 200 millimetres in some isolated falls.
