Residents were scrambling into their attics because it was the last place that they could find ar. They were literally people agtis lying in an apram roof truss with 20 centimater hen pocket its umbelabl there were mothers carrying children on to roof tops that were rapidly disappearing under the water, and literally just screaming out for help. Politicians have called it a once in a thousand year flood. In towns like lismore, it's definitely the worst that people have ever experienced. There were literally bodies being pulled out of a canal in west in sydney,. 50000 people across new south wales were forced to evacuate  and more than 20 people have been killed