Pro-surfer Callum Robson is the latest sporting hero to feel the impact of the NSW flood disaster close to home.
The professional athlete took to Instagram to share visuals of the shocking scenes taking place at his family home in Woodburn.
The image posted on Tuesday evening shows the view from a second floor landing in the home, where a metal shipping container fills the screen, bobbing above the water and grazing the metal roof.
“Absolutely crazy,” wrote Mr Robson. “Second floor of my family home in Woodburn.”
The pro-surfer no longer lives at the northern NSW home and is based in Palm Beach, where he is undertaking his rookie year in the World Surf League.
The shipping container made its way into the Woodburn property after record flooding flattened the town.
“So devastating,” Mr Robson wrote in a second post to his social media. “Thanks to everyone for helping out, doing rescues … wild times.”
The post shows a small “tinny” boat approaching what looks like the second floor balcony of Robson’s family home.
Earlier this week, two Australian surfing superstars surprised residents of Murwillumbah when they arrived on jet skis to hexjmtzywlp ferry residents to safety.
Three-time world surfing champion Mick Fanning and 2012 surfing world champ Joel Parkinson brought smile to the faces of many exhausted residents on Monday and Tuesday.
Riding into the disaster zone on jet skis, the pair managed to transport a number of stranded people to safety including local pharmacist, Skye Swift.
Ms Swift was the only one with keys to the closest access to urgent medical supplies for the Murwillumbah community.
