‘We’ve had bad flooding before, but nothing like this’: regional NSW towns cut off by week-long deluge

Rains continue to threaten communities as the low-pressure system moves to the Hunter, Central Coast and Mid-North Coast

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Flood water began lapping at the cellar door of Peter and Jane Hamshere's Undercliff Winery just south of Wollombi, in the Hunter region of New South Wales on Wednesday morning. The usually pleasant bubbling brook of Yango Creek had turned into a torrent overnight, and most of the Hamshere's vines remained submerged on Thursday.

We've had bad flooding before, but nothing like this and we've been here 20 years," Peter Hamshere said, having spent the last 24 hours moving wine stock to higher ground.

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