Dozens warned to go away now as storm threatens properties on NSW Central Coast

Heavy rain and powerful wind gusts have prompted important coastal erosion at Wamberal Seashore and the council has dumped sandbags alongside the shore in a determined bid to avoid wasting properties.

5 properties alongside Ocean View Drive on the Central Coast have now been advised to evacuate by the NSW SES.

Photographs taken at Wamberal Seashore on Tuesday morning. (Chris Rogers)

Any residents with properties backing onto Wamberal Seashore have been warned to remain vigilant and evacuate if crucial.

A number of properties alongside Hutton Street in The Entrance North have additionally been directed to evacuate now attributable to harmful surf and coastal erosion.

SES volunteers have began doorknocking in each areas and asking residents to go away now.

“You need to evacuate now as a result of it could grow to be too harmful to remain on this space,” the SES mentioned in an evacuation discover shared shortly earlier than 4pm.

East coast low map — Heavy rain and powerful wind gusts have prompted important coastal erosion. (Windy.com)

A coastal swell prompted harmful landslips within the Central Coast space in April, and the SES has warned they might happen once more.

Trains travelling to and from Wyong have additionally been cancelled because the storm rages on throughout the coast, smashing areas from Coffs Harbour within the state’s mid-north all the way down to Bega within the south.

Images taken at Wamberal Beach on Tuesday morning. — Sandbagging happening at Wamberal Seashore. (Chris Rogers)

Sydney has additionally been hammered by important rainfall and damaging winds.

The towering swells have resulted in a number of Sydney ferries being cancelled.

NSW Minister for Emergency Providers Jihad Dib earlier right this moment mentioned the east coast is not out of the woods but and warned the climate will possible grow to be extra extreme later right this moment and into tomorrow.