Some Sydney beaches have been hit with huge swells and a massive king tide. Residents in Botany Bay were forced to evacuate last night as powerful surf and the king tide inundated homes. There is a warning for hazardous and damaging surf with the potential to cause coastal erosion and damage from the NSW Illawarra to the Hunter coasts.
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00:00There's been quite significant damage in Sydney's south suburb of Dolls Point and as you can
00:08see behind me the pavement has been ripped up, the railing along the sea wall has been
00:14damaged and the sand from the ocean has been picked up and thrown across the road and into
00:20the front yards of many of the houses here.
00:23Now this all happened at around midnight last night when the swell started to pick up and
00:29a king tide formed to reach around 2 metres in height but when it hit this sea wall beside
00:35me it reached a massive 15 metres and created some of the damage we're seeing here this
00:41morning.
00:42Now residents say that this is the first time that they've seen massive damage like this
00:49before.
00:50Some who've lived here for many years said that they can only remember maybe one incident
00:55that happened many years ago but it wasn't as bad as this one we're seeing here today.
01:00Let's take a quick listen to what some of them had to say.
01:03About four years ago when we had a king tide the water came up and washed right through
01:09into the houses at Dolls Point, down their driveways, into their backyards.
01:14So this is probably about the second time that I've ever seen it happen in my lifetime.
01:21Now it's all about recovery and clean up here at Dolls Point.
01:25The council have moved in to start removing these large slabs of concrete and cleaning
01:31the roads surrounding the area but the Bureau of Meteorology have issued a warning for hazardous
01:39surf.
01:40We've seen a lot of people out in the water today paddle boarding and in boats so the
01:45advice is to really stay out of the water if you can.