Wild spring storm blankets NSW town in hail that looks like snow

Wild spring storm blankets NSW town in hail that looks like snow

The SES is cleaning up across northern NSW after a huge storm cell blanketed parts of the Mid North Coast with hail yesterday.

A huge storm cell blanketed parts of the Mid North Coast in thick piles of hail that resembled snow yesterday.

A second cell hit the Lower Clarence, causing significant damage.

SES crews from Newcastle are heading to Wauchope to help finalise the clean-up.

Residents on the NSW Mid North Coast are cleaning up after a storm left towns covered in hail so thick it looked like snow.

Storms swept through the Mid North Coast and Northern Rivers yesterday afternoon, with the State Emergency Service (SES) responding to 125 call-outs, more than 70 of them in the Wauchope area.

Sandra Hanson at the Wauchope Rural Supply Store said the hail came down heavily and their shop and stock was damaged.

"It was very hectic ... it was like snow, the whole car park just looked like snow," she said.

"We turned around and inside the shop, all the guttering couldn't take the hail and it was like it was raining inside, so we were frantically grabbing stock off shelves."Mid North Coast SES deputy zone commander Tony Day said more crews would arrive to help with the clean-up today.

"We managed to complete all but nine of those jobs into the evening, and this morning we have some crews from Newcastle coming up to assist us in managing the fatigue for our…

In brief

A huge storm cell blanketed parts of the Mid North Coast in thick piles of hail that resembled snow yesterday. Residents on the NSW Mid North Coast are cleaning up after a storm left towns covered in hail so thick it looked like snow. "It was very hectic ... it was like snow, the whole car park just looked like snow," she said.

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