A young mother has described the horrifying moment a 1200m “wall of water” raced towards her as she stood in the street of her small town.
Eugowra is among the towns hardest hit by record floods that have swept through communities in the NSW Central West.
NSW SES volunteers performed 150 flood rescues in the 24 hours after floods ripped through the town, with almost one in five residents of the small town stranded on rooftops.
Young mother Jodie told A Current Affair of the terrifying moment that a “wall of water” came ploughing down the road in front of her.
“It was just like a huge 1200m wall coming straight at us,” she said.
“It was insane.”
“People (were) running everywhere.”
Jodie said she quickly jumped out of her car and ran back inside her house to escape the torrent of water, but it soon entered the home.
“The water rose that quickly,” she said.
“We literally got water all around us. You couldn’t open doors.”
Community members reportedly conducted a headcount of residents on social media when they were able to get reception.
However, two people – an 85-year-old man and a 60-year-old woman – remain missing.
Dianne Smith, 60, and Ljubisa “Les” Vugec, 85, were last heard from around 9am on Monday.
Police have issued a geo-targeted message and are searching the area.
There were more than 900 requests for assistance and 222 flood rescues in NSW in the 24 hours to Tuesday.
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