Airbnb cabin ripped into Mount Keira creek | Illawarra Mercury | April 6, 2024 - video Dailymotion

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Mount Keira residents who back onto Byarong Creek had their nightmares realised early on Saturday, as a huge torrent broke the banks and lifted a backyard cabin hosting two Airbnb guests into the water.

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00:00 After the torrential rain from four o'clock onwards, about six o'clock, the bridge blocks

00:09 with all of the debris that you see with the trees, trunks, branches, as it does tend to

00:15 do quite often.

00:17 Once that blocks, it backs up, the water rises, and it goes through the least resistant, which

00:23 is overland, not following the creek, because it's full already.

00:26 What happened then, the water rose that much, we think about what we're seeing here and

00:32 what I've got on my CCTV, about a metre.

00:36 It lifted the cabin off its foundations, it then swept it through the back here, there

00:42 was a fence and my garden patch was behind there.

00:46 That's just been wiped out from the whole unit.

00:50 It was then careened down to the bridge, horrendous speed, and it slammed into the bridge and

00:56 broke apart.

00:59 Two people who were in the cabin, I don't think they were sleeping because the noise

01:02 of everything was so loud, were still inside when it slammed into the bridge.

01:06 My neighbours across the road saw it, were able to get over there, help them get out

01:12 of it.

01:13 They called the ambulance and off they went to hospital.

01:16 This is a common occurrence when we get rain like this.

01:20 The bridge is a wrong design for this area, the culverts are at an angle to the actual

01:25 creek, so it traps any sort of debris that may come through.

01:32 When it traps it, it causes a dam.

01:34 The '98 flood was exactly the same, we've got exactly the same today.

01:39 The major difference today is we almost had two fatalities when the cabin crashed into

01:45 the bridge.

01:46 The noise was horrendous.

01:47 I've got it on my CCTV at 6 o'clock, at one minute my car thought there is no water.

01:54 In two minutes we've got three quarters of a metre of water and it was rushing through.

01:59 The debris is just horrendous.

02:03 Wiped through my whole back garden.

02:06 We were lucky this time it didn't go in our house, the '98 flood it did, but it went under

02:11 and it pushed a lot of things out.

02:13 Two of our cars have got some water damage, we don't know what will happen with them.

02:19 And most, if not all of our fence has been damaged to the point where we go back to insurance

02:24 again.

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Airbnb cabin ripped into Mount Keira creek | Illawarra Mercury | April 6, 2024

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