SANCTUARY Point resident Narrell Brown had just returned to her The Park Drive home after a quick drive around the village this morning, Wednesday, to see how things were faring.
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She said emergency services were monitoring the low lying areas, including Paradise Beach reserve
Her home is safe because it’s on high ground but on one of her regular Facebook posts said the bottom end of The Park Drive, down by Cockcrow Creek, seemed to get the brunt of things each time it flooded.
She added it looked a lot more severe than previous times.
“This is by far the worst they have copped it,” she said in her post.
Her father Ron Tomlin is a well-known resident and he said he had not seen such a deluge since 1976.
Ms Brown has many friends in the region and has not heard of many people going to the evacuation centre at the St Georges Basin Country Club.
What she knows is many people have offered accommodation.
“The community it banding together – we have wonderful community,” she said.
Old Erowal Bay resident Dick Manwarring and his wife Joan have been stunned by the amount of rain that has hit the area.
“We have lived in the area for 32 years and this [the rain] is the worst we have seen it,” he said.
The Manwarrings, even though the water levels did rise, were not forced to evacuate.
They did receive a general phone warning suggesting they be prepared to evacuate.
Mr Manwarring said it was good to see the State Emergency Services (SES) in the area.
If the situation gets worse this afternoon, Wednesday, the couple may be forced to evacuate.
