‘Like an ocean’: Molong devastated by deluge with more NSW towns hit with fresh flooding

Swathes of the New South Wales central west were battered by rain and powerful storms overnight

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Residents have described how flood waters moved through the small rural town of Molong in central west NSW like an ocean", flooding homes and businesses overnight.

It is horrific, like Molong is devastated and every single business has been affected today," publican Kim Stojanov, who owns the Freemason's Hotel with her husband David, told Guardian Australia. We're lucky no one was killed."