SANCTUARY Point resident Narrell Brown had just returned to her The Park Drive home after a quick drive around the village on Wednesday morning 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 was safe because it’s on high ground but on one of her regular Facebook posts she said the bottom end of The Park Drive, down by Cockcrow Creek, seemed to get the brunt of things each time it flooded.
She said 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 had not heard of many people going to the evacuation centre at the St Georges Basin Country Club.
What she knew was many people offered accommodation.
“The community is banding together – we have wonderful community,” she said.
Old Erowal Bay resident Dick Manwarring and his wife Joan were stunned by the amount of rain that 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.
