Residents of Sydney's north-west say swell in development has made flooding worse

Thousands of extra buildings and new roads on the flood plain have changed how rainwater runs off into the Hawkesbury River, locals say

Where do they think the water is going to go? It's not 1960 any more."

Shaun Boland was furious on Tuesday and it wasn't because live power lines had blocked him from accessing, by boat, his two-storey house at Pitt Town Bottoms in Sydney's north-west. His home, like dozens of others nearby, was drowned and blending into the Hawkesbury River.