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Storms taking toll on NSW north coast

The State Emergency Service says volunteers are starting to feel the effects of the recent wild weather.

The New South Wales north coast region was battered overnight by the fourth violent storm in 10 days.

The Richmond-Tweed SES deputy controller, Jeff Spash, says volunteers worked until about 3:00am AEDT this morning in some places, and will soon be back on the job.

He says the damage was widespread.

"Kyogle, a house there with half its roof off, Woodburn, trees over vehicles in the caravan parks, Murwillumbah had another half a roof off a house in Tyalgum, and Mt Lindsay, a heap of trees blocking the highway there about three kilometres west of Woodenbong," he said.

"In Macleans Ridges there was a fairly big tree down near a house there."

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