premise: NSW flooding: Photos reveal devastation in Lismore and Murwillumbah Updated Major floods have hit the New South Wales far north coast, with tens of thousands of people evacuating Murwillumbah and Lismore, the main areas hit. Photos have revealed the devastation as waters continue to rise in the wake of ex-cyclone Debbie, with flooding also wreaking havoc further north in Queensland. Lismore area Murwillumbah area Topics: floods, disasters-and-accidents, weather, emergency-planning, emergency-incidents, lismore-2480, nsw, australia, north-lismore-2480, murwillumbah-2484 First posted
hypothesis: Evacuees were heading into Lismore and Murwillumbah to escape the flooding.
reason: The statement is in the correct category because the excerpt says that Lismore and Murwillumbah were the hardest hit by flooding, and that people were leaving those areas. The system may have had difficulty because the excerpt doesn't say were the evacuees were heading.