NSW floods live updates: More warnings for Hawkesbury, residents reunite with families

Emergency services have reunited dozens of families this morning after they have spent the week cut off from one another.

Boatloads of stranded people have been ferried by the SES across the Hawkesbury River on Thursday morning. as the water level finally begins to drop.

 

At the makeshift boat ramp on at the bottom of flooded George Street in Windsor, SES and NSW Police boats have been going out empty and coming back full.

Those onboard have largely been sick, elderly or pregnant.But one of the most emotional embraces was that shared between 11-year-old Jamie Crinnion and his mum Mirva.

The youngster went for a sleepover at a friend’s house in Wilberforce last week, but when the rain set in and did not relent, he became stranded.

With tears in her eyes Mrs Crinnion wrapped her arms around her son as he stepped off the SES boat, telling him: “You’re home”.

“He went over there for a sleepover and it has all gone wrong,” Jamie’s father Paul said.

“We’ve got some good friends over at Singleton who he was staying with, but I was going to do a run over through Singleton today but the SES have helped out.

“His mum will be beside herself when he gets off, she’s really missed him.”

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Originally published as NSW floods live updates: More warnings for Hawkesbury, residents reunite with families