World news – The destroyed couple’s house floats away in the NSW floods on their wedding day

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It should be her wedding anniversary, but now Sarah Soars will be and Joshua Edge remember March 20 for all the wrong reasons.

As the floods ripped through much of NSW, the couples’ home in Mondrook, near Taree on the central north coast, was lost to its foundations and manning River swept down.

Shocked neighbors filmed the three-bedroom cottage pulling past paddocks as a cloudy brown stream pulled it away.

The incident added a day of wild weather in the state that saw several areas, including parts of the greater Sydney area, have been evacuated.

The day-long deluge is expected to last until next week, and the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) warns that another 100mm of rain a o fall on the central north coast.

« I guess it hasn’t hit me that much … until I see my partner and we figure out where we’re going, » Sarah told News Limited.

« Obviously he has his mother and I have my mother and our other family in town, but from living with the two of us to living with someone is difficult.

An online donation site set up by Joshua’s brother Lyle surpassed in less Hours the $ 30,000 goal.

The couple rented the home of Peter Bowie and Tracia Milton, who are new to the area and have evacuated 180 cattle in wild weather.

« The folks from Taree are just so good, they band together, they call you from everywhere to say, « We found a cow here, we found another calf here, » they were in people’s backyards, « said Peter.

« Even the groom and his father have a bull in Tinonee and got three cows and put them in a pen in elementary school. « 

Tracia described it as » devastating « to see the house swept away and said the couple who were about to get married were » dejected « when she was found out what had happened.

« I spoke to Josh several times today and he’s doing the best he can, » said Tracia.

« They originally wanted to get married on the waterfront in front of the house, » said Peter .

« We had mowed it nicely so they had a way to the bank, but they canceled that a few days ago because it was getting wetter. »

Peter said he couldn’t believe what he saw the water flow through his property and pick up the house.

The State Emergency Service (SES) has responded to thousands of alerts across the state and performed hundreds of flood rescues in the past 48 hours when the water hit rising.

Authorities have instructed people in various areas, including Sydney, to use the new the most recent information. Today the BOM predicts 100mm of rain will fall in Port Macquarie on the central north coast.

NSW Prime Minister Gladys Berejiklian said yesterday that her state was well prepared but complained that it was « a deep one. » « extreme weather event ».

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