Shocking before and after aerial images expose the severity of the NSW floods
Newly released aerial imagery from the NSW Mid North Coast has captured the sobering scale of flood damage.
The images from Nearmap show the before and after of the situation.
Nearmap's Senior Director of Survey and Geospatial Content Operations M'Shenda Turner spoke of the devastation.
"This has been one of the most severe weather events we've seen in NSW in recent years — entire communities have been cut off, and the scale of the damage is staggering.
"These imagery and insights give us a powerful way to help emergency services, insurers and local councils understand exactly what they're facing on the ground.
"In moments like this, fast, clear information is everything - it helps guide critical decisions, prioritise support, and ultimately, speed up the path to recovery for the impacted communities."
In this photo, cows are crowded in a tiny island that was previously a small patch of a paddock.
Click through to see the before and after photos.
This photo shows a home in Kinchela from overhead in January.
And the same home surrounded by water four days ago.
Cows can be seen taking refuge on a rectangular patch of higher ground.
This photo shows the edge of the town of Bulahdelah a year ago.
But the usually narrow Myall River had burst its banks during last week's flooding, coming close to swamping the town.
This photograph from February showed farmland in good condition in Coopernook.
But the farmland was completely inundated last week.
This is Dumaresq Island on the edge of Taree, as it normally appears.
But during the flooding the island was broken up into an archipelago of smaller islands, with most of the land swallowed by the Manning River.
This is farmland in East Seaham as it appeared in February.
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