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WET AND WILD WEEK HUNTER SES CALL OUTS 6018 From Monday to Thursday 4.30pm 3500 jobs remaining SES WORKERS 500 on the ground, 300 locals, 200 from outside the area RFS WORKERS 90 FIRE AND RESCUE 1000 NSW RAINFALL 148mm In one hour at Maitland between 10am and 11am Tuesday 436mm Maitland’s rainfall in the 48 hours to Wednesday morning 80mm Maitland’s April average rainfall IN 24 HOURS TO TUESDAY MORNING Dungog had 312mm Tocal had 243mm IN 48 HOURS TO WEDNESDAY MORNING Wallsend 318mm Lambton 280mm Merewether 274mm Maryville 222m Nobbys 164mm Gostwyck Bridge 408mm Cessnock 197mm WIND GUSTS Nobbys and Norah Head- 135km/h Merewether - 130km/h (estimated) Williamtown - 113km/h POWER 250,000 Calls to Ausgrid 11,000 Reports of wires down 130,000 Peak number of customers without power TOP FIVE SUBURBS STILL WITHOUT POWER Source: Ausgrid Raymond Terrace 2393 customers Charlestown 1686 Anna Bay 1382 Valentine 1210 Waratah 1198 RIVER HEIGHTS Paterson River, Gostwyck Bridge 16.1m Wollombi Brook, Bulga 7.3m Hunter River at Singleton 10.1m Hunter River at Maitland 8.9m RUBBISH COLLECTION NEWCASTLE Free tipping for storm waste at Summerhill starts on Saturday LAKE MACQUARIE Free kerbside green waste col- lection service for all residents will start on April 27, 2015 MAITLAND Three waste collection trucks operating on Saturday. Kerbside waste collection in Gillieston Heights and Phoenix Park will be serviced as soon as these areas are accessible CESSNOCK Waste collection services are operating with one day delay. The service will be operating on Saturday and normal service should resume on Monday PORT STEPHENS Collections are up to two days behind. People should leave their bins out as per normal and they will be collected. Collections that were missed earlier this week will also be collected across the weekend PHONE COVERAGE TELSTRA ADSL services down 13,000 TELSTRA FIXED LINE services down 17,000 TRAFFIC LIGHT BLACKED OUT 250 or more traffic lights blacked out. Lights still out in Newcastle, Maitland and Upper Hunter PEOPLE CUT OFF BY FLOODWATER 4500 at the peak People still cut off 2500 ROADS STILL CLOSED MAITLAND ABERGLASSLYN Aberglasslyn Road (at Melville Ford Bridge) BERRY PARK McFarlanes Road BOLWARRA Lang Drive BOLWARRA Paterson Road at Flat Road Roundabout DUCKENFIELD Eales Road EAST MAITLAND Melbourne Street (nr Flinders St) EAST MAITLAND Metford Road - closed at Raymond Terrace Rd roundabout to Maize Street EAST MAITLAND Metford Road underpass closed - Raymond Terrace Rd to Fieldsend Street EAST MAITLAND Raymond Terrace Road (Closed at Roundabout at Metford Road to Chisholm) GILLIESTON HEIGHTS Cessnock Road (nr Vintage) HILLSBOROUGH Hillsborough Road at the concrete culvert LARGS Dalveen Road LARGS McKimms Road LARGS Flat Road at Glenarvon Road LOUTH PARK Louth Park Road LOUTH PARK Trappaud Road - Melbourne Street end LUSKINTYRE Luskintyre Road (near house No. 805) MAITLAND Allan Walsh Drive MAITLAND Fry Street & Bent Street MAITLAND Ken Tubman Drive at Allan Walsh MAITLAND Maitland Park closed for vehicular traffic MAITLAND New England Highway from Maitland Hospital to Melbourne Street OAKHAMPTON Willards Lane TARRO Woodberry Road TELARAH Bungaree Street TELARAH Green Street TELARAH Mt Dee Road TENAMBIT Metford Rd closed Raymond Terrace Rd to Maize Street TESTERS HOLLOW Cessnock Road THORNTON Government Road / Raymond Terrace Road THORNTON Raymond Terrace Road at Thornton (Chisholm) WOODBERRY Duckenfield Avenue WOODBERRY Redbill Drive to Woodberry WOODBERRY Woodberry Road WOODBERRY Lawson Avenue CESSNOCK Cessnock Road, Abermain PORT STEPHENS Six Mile Rd, Eagleton Kirrang Drive & Lisadell Road, Medowie Dixon St, Nelson Bay Trafalgar St, Nelson Bay Wentworth St, Nelson Bay Ronald Ave, Shoal Bay Garden Place, Shoal Bay Flannel Flower Fairway, Shoal Bay Clarencetown Rd closed at Carmichael’s Creek Seaham Road, Seaham Kent Gardens, Soldiers Point King Street, Raymond Terrace Hunter St, Raymond Terrace Bourke St, Raymond Terrace William Bailey St (at McDonald’s), Raymond Terrace Newline Road, Raymond Terrace Links Drive, Raymond Terrace Fitzgerald Bridge, Raymond Terrace Port Stephens St, Raymond Terrace - closed between William St and William Bailey St Old Punt Rd, Tomago Butterwick Road, Woodville Paterson Road, Woodville SINGLETON Cranky Corner Road Wollombi Road Gresford Road BRIDGE CLOSURES Hillsborough Road Bridge, Hillsborough Melville Ford Bridge. Aberglasslyn Yarramalong Bridge, Louth Park EVACUATION CENTRES Raymond Terrace Evacuation Centre – 17 E Irrawang Street, Raymond Terrace: Breakfast, lunch and dinner. Open until Monday 27 April Green Hills Evacuation Centre - 19 Galway Bay Drive Ashtonfield: Breakfast, lunch and dinner. Ongoing into Saturday and pos- sibly open until Monday 27 April Nelson Bay Evacuation centre, 4981 Nelson Bay Road, Nelson Bay: Dinner 23rd April and ongo- ing at the moment Medowie Evacuation Centre, 44 Ferodale Road, Medowie: Dinner 23rd April and ongoing at the moment ROADS STILL CLOSED theherald.com.au WATCH THE VIDEOS PLUS PICTURE GALLERIES
