Three people are dead at Dungog, 100,000 homes are without power across the Hunter and entire communities are isolated after a devastating storm rocked the Hunter.
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The east coast low carried ferocity that rivalled the storm of the 2007 June long weekend.
Almost half a metre of rain fell near Maitland yesterday.
Winds up to 135km/h battered the region and sent emergency services into overdrive.
Rescue efforts continued into the night as the wild weather persisted.
The Bureau of Meteorology rainfall station at Woodville recorded 466.2 millimetres of rain in the 32 hours from 9am on Monday to 5pm on Tuesday.
In 2007 the same station recorded 486mm for the entire month of June.
“I think this is worse than 2007,” the BOM rainfall observer at Woodville said yesterday.
“We haven’t seen anything like this since and it hasn’t stopped yet.”
