I'm not kidding: Busta the goat is rescued from the flash flooding at Warrina Rd, Londonderry after a massive downpour. Picture: Bill Hearne Source: The Daily Telegraph FLASH flooding inundated roads and houses in greater western Sydney after heavy rainfall last night.
Approximately 100mm of rain drenched the streets of Penrith, Londonderry, Cranebrook, Castlereagh, Kingswood, Jamisontown and Werrington about 8pm.
Homes were evacuated and drivers were forced to wade through waist-high flood water.
Julijana Matthews, 31, asked State Emergency Services if they could rescue her pet goat Busta from the backyard after residents from Warrina Street, Londonderry escaped the rising water.
"I told them (SES) that I had the goat stuck in the backyard and they were more than happy to go and grab him with the boat," she said.
"Busta doesn't really like water, (he) doesn't tend to go on many boat rides."
Mrs Matthews watched the water level rising during a torrential downpour that covered areas around Penrith and St Marys about 8pm.
"We were at home and the water just started rising and rising getting worse and worse, it was pouring," she said.
"It looks like everything is going under. The water is flowing through nice and quickly, probably just past ankle height now (inside the home) and that's happened in the last hour so it's rising really quickly."
Mrs Matthews has lived on the street for three and a half years and never experienced a flood like last nights.
"I had a cry in the middle of the street," she said. "I had a big sook and then decided that I've got to get on with it.
"(We) tried to get the cars out of the garage, tried to get the animals onto higher ground and then helped a few neighbours out."
Darrol Hancock, 56, raced to his home in Londonderry from work when he heard about the floods.
"It (water) was up to the fence and it's still rising."
"Last time we had a flood this bad it was 1990, but it didn't come as high as this."
Mr Hancock believes the area floods when Rickabys Creek can't cope with the rainfall.
State Emergency Services assisted in evacuations and road closures.
Police turned westbound traffic around on the Great Western Highway at Werrington.
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