TV legend Delvene Delaney’s flood “trauma”
<p dir="ltr">Former TV legend Delvene Delaney has spoken about the horrors of finding her young grandchildren floating on a mattress in flood waters.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Parts of south-east Queensland and northern NSW were impacted greatly by torrential rain which saw some towns underwater. </p>
<p dir="ltr">The 70-year-old former soap actress recalled the distressing moment she saw her grandsons floating on a mattress after their father’s home in Mullumbimby, a town in the Byron Shire, dipped under from the deluge. </p>
<p dir="ltr">"I had to placate my two little grandsons, six and eight, from the trauma of being found on a floating mattress in the middle of the night in Mullumbimby as their dad's house went under," she told <a href="https://honey.nine.com.au/latest/australia-unites-red-cross-flood-appeal-2022-pat-rafter-mick-fanning-local-communtiy/c31c5b93-71f4-4adc-ae60-e3245566fde0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nine Honey</a>.</p>
<p dir="ltr">"My daughter was stranded in Murwillumbah for five days with no contact, we had no telephones, no internet.</p>
<p dir="ltr">"So it was the fear of not knowing where everybody was and how safe they were that I'm sure was felt by all people in this area, not just those affected.”</p>
<p dir="ltr">Despite the horrors of the floods, she commended people from all over for getting together and supporting one another. </p>
<p dir="ltr">A television flood appeal by the Australian Red Cross raised more than $25 million for victims in NSW and Queensland, as communities slowly begin to clean up. </p>
<p dir="ltr"><em>Image: Nine Honey</em></p>
