A family of five, a semi-retired couple and the two owners of the Walwa Caravan park were rescued by Victorian State Emergency Service volunteers in dinghies on Tuesday night when the park flooded.
Semi-retired caretaker Gary Cooper, a former resident of the NSW Northern Rivers region, said he was no stranger to flooding, but remarked on the speed of the rising water.
"It's a totally different flooding here. It's very quick," Mr Cooper told AAP.
"We thought it was all under control."
The water soon prevented vehicles leaving the park.
"We couldn't get out, so we got rescued," Mr Cooper said.
Walwa Caravan Park owner Heidi Conway said the floodwaters were unlike anything she had seen.
"This one was quite intensive and it was flowing really, really fast. So it was time to go," she said.
Ms Conway said the park's cabins were safe, but she would have to wait until floodwaters subsided to assess the damage to her own home.
"If it recedes a bit more we might be able to get in because it was not far going into our residence when we were evacuated," she said.
The rescue comes as general flood conditions across the state ease following the busiest month on record for Victoria's SES, with volunteers responding to a staggering 13,705 calls for assistance in October.
VICSES chief officer for operations Tim Wiebusch said it had been an incredibly busy month for the outfit.
"I'm really proud of the work our VICSES volunteers have undertaken and continue to do to assist so many community members with great support from our partner agencies," Mr Wiebusch said in a statement.
On Tuesday, Mr Wiebusch said above average rainfall was expected to continue for the next six to eight weeks.
The SES responded to more than 230 requests for assistance on Tuesday, down from 564 the day before.
Currently there are 76 flood warnings in place across the state, revised down from more than 90 yesterday.
More than 2750 Victorian homes are without electricity.
In severely flood-affected Rochester, SES unit controller Tim Williams was rescuing people while his own home flooded.
"We just moved forward with the work and tried not to think about what was happening at home," Mr Williams said.
"We were evacuating people, so that's where our attention needed to be. The spirit of the community has been extraordinary; volunteering their time and resources, and making things happen."
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