{"id":13699,"date":"2025-05-23T04:41:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T16:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=13699"},"modified":"2025-05-23T04:41:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T16:41:04","slug":"police-confirm-three-now-dead-after-devastating-flooding-on-the-nsw-mid-north-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=13699","title":{"rendered":"Police confirm three now dead after devastating flooding on the NSW Mid North Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"description g_font-long-format\">\n<p>A third person has died in devastating floods that have swamped NSW, as the first victim has been remembered as a \u201cselfless hero\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The SES has warned residents it is too late to leave as torrential rain cuts off evacuation routes in Port Macquarie as Sydney braces for a blast of torrential rainfall that has wreaked havoc across parts of the NSW Mid North Coast.<\/p>\n<p>Moto farmer David Knowles has been identified as the first of three people to have died in the devastating floods.<\/p>\n<p>The 63-year-old\u2019s body was found \u201cankle-deep\u201d in water on the veranda of his home on North Moto Road, northeast of Taree, about 3pm on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"media image\">\n<div class=\"responsive-img\" data-desiredimagesize=\"block_large_image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-img_img inline-image\" src=\"https:\/\/content.api.news\/v3\/images\/bin\/c9bfb51a44a1733731277bc26b037eef\" alt=\"David Knowles (second to left) was found dead in floodwater on the veranda of his North Moto Road home about 3pm on Wednesday.\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" \/><\/div>\n<p>David Knowles (second to left) was found dead in floodwater on the veranda of his North Moto Road home about 3pm on Wednesday.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Authorities later said a man \u2013 believed to be in his 30s \u2013 died in floodwaters near Rosewood, about 4km west of Wauchope.<\/p>\n<p>Police on Thursday evening confirmed the third body was that of a woman in her 60s, who had been travelling between Armidale and Coffs Harbour on Wednesday night when her car became trapped in floodwaters on Morora Road, Brooklana.<\/p>\n<p>She was travelling in a convoy with a police officer about 7pm, with the officer unable to continue in his sedan when the pair reached ankle-deep flood waters.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant Commissioner David Waddell told reporters the officer had cautioned the woman not to drive through floodwaters, and gave her his phone number in case of an emergency.<\/p>\n<p>The woman continued to drive, before calling the officer 30 minutes later in trouble.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/wp-content\/themes\/newscorpau-news-dna\/dist\/images\/logos\/news.svg\" alt=\"news.com.au \u2014 Australia\u2019s leading news site\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A third person has died in devastating floods that have swamped NSW, as the first victim has been remembered as a \u201cselfless hero\u201d. The SES has warned residents it is too late to leave as torrential rain cuts off evacuation routes in Port Macquarie as Sydney braces for a blast of torrential rainfall that has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":13700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13701,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13699\/revisions\/13701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}