Satellite images of Hawkesbury River flooding show true extent of NSW devastation

Satellites orbiting the earth’s exosphere have been able to capture the true extent of the past week’s flood devastation in NSW.

The imagery shows fields and properties along the Hawkesbury River completely underwater.

The entire NSW coast has been drowned by at least 200 millimetres, and in some places, more than 400mm of rain.

To put that in context, Sydney averages 132mm of rain for the whole month of March.

As the pictures show, much of Windsor and its surrounding areas have been swallowed by the swollen river and houses are now islands in an ocean of flood water.

Although river levels are slowly…