Some evacuation orders lifted in northern NSW as floodwaters recede

Police have issued an urgent appeal for information as the search for a missing 55-year-old continues.NSW Police Assistant Commissioner Joe Cassar said Ms Brakel, who originally lived in Nowra, had been recruited to Lismore as an aged care worker.Floodwater inundate cars in Lismore. Evacuation orders have been issued for towns across the NSW Northern Rivers region, with flash flooding amid heavy rainfall.

In total the unit were tasked with just under 100 requests for assistance, including flood evacuations, support and storm jobs. About 6000 people remain without power, with Deputy Commissioner Austin noting "many infrastructure challenges" in the Northern Rivers. "We will continue to work as quickly as we can to restore those, and I am confident that those issues have not hampered our response during this particular time."Ballina residents have also criticised a lack of evacuation warnings as they woke up to a town underwater yesterday morning.Marc Wilson has lived in Byron for 35-plus years. He said he's never seen a storm like the one that blew through yesterday."We knew a storm was coming just not to the extreme it did come.

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