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One young family has resolved to ignore evacuation orders and wait out the floods engulfing their Forbes home, and say they are confident they will remain safe.

The Hamilton family is waiting out the floods that have spread around and underneath their home, which is located close to the main flood channel running through the centre of Forbes.

"We've stocked up on food, nappies and all of that for her [their daughter]," Jesse Hamilton said.

"We're doing pretty good here," Isabel De Mello, Mr Hamilton's partner, said.

"We still have electricity and we can still flush the toilet, and we've got clean running water."

The sound of splashing water outside the home alerts the couple a visitor is approaching.

Mr Hamilton's mother, Mary Hamilton, has been wading through the flood waters to visit her granddaughter, Rogue.

"I think this time it could be a lot worse, but that's the joy of living on the river," she said.

For someone braving her first major flood, Rogue would be taking it all in her stride, if she could only walk.

But at 10 months of age, the tiny infant has yet to take her first step.

"She seems to like looking out the window at all the ducks swimming past," Mr Hamilton said.

"She's enjoying it as it comes."

During the weekend Ms Hamilton was left with little option but to evacuate her home located on a small farm outside of Forbes on the Cowra Road.

Before she left her property, she was able to move livestock to higher ground, but she knows her neighbours will have lost valuable crops.

"The farming community is just devastated. They've lost everything again," she said.

"They put their crops in when it looked like they would be bumper crops, and now they're gone.

"They only get one chance at it, so many things can go wrong and it does."

Ms De Mello and Mr Hamilton said so far their house was fine and they felt confident they would get through the flood safely.

"I suppose everyone has told us to get out and all of that, and we've got all our friends and family a bit worried," Mr Hamilton said.

"But there's no way we're going to go under, so we're going to stay in the house and wait it out."