Severe weather warning for areas further south after rain left three dead, 48,000 stranded and water levels at their highest for 100 yearsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA reprieve from heavy rainfall is expected to arrive on the New South Wales mid-north coast on Friday after three days of flooding, as authorities desperately search for a missing man with three people confirmed dead.Residents in the region are hoping for easing conditions on Friday after the NSW premier, Chris Minns, said on Thursday flooding had “smashed through” communities with “levels of rise in local tributaries, creeks [and] rivers that we haven’t seen since 1920”.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...