‘Utterly terrifying’: the moment a ‘wave of biblical proportions’ destroyed NSW town of Eugowra

A house in Eugowra was picked up by flood waters and deposited 400 metres down the street. Photograph: Mike Bowers/The Guardian

Locals in Eugowra are calling it a tsunami, a “tidal wave of biblical proportions” that came as a “terrifying” wall of water from beyond the hills and obliterated the New South Wales town.

Lenise Mantell’s home was tossed 400 metres down the road, spinning in the flood waters. She said she was lucky she wasn’t inside it, saying she just barely escaped.