00:00It's actually starting to, the realisation is kicking in now.
00:06As I said, I was just out the back five minutes ago and the winds are really starting to strengthen
00:11now.
00:12So it's all starting to hit home now.
00:14It's not far from making landfall, but it's the butterflies definitely are kicking in.
00:19What made you stay?
00:22We sort of got to the point and plus we've got a couple of animals here.
00:27We'd done pretty good preparation leading up to it.
00:29So we were sort of happy with that, but then it did get to the point all the roads were
00:33cut off anyway.
00:34And as there is a centre here, evacuation centre, but it was by the time the alerts
00:39got brought out, it was too late for that anyway.
00:41So we sort of just have to bear down and race through it now.
00:45Have you got a place in the house where you plan to go?
00:48Should it get a bit scary?
00:49Yeah, I actually made that up.
00:53It's pretty much just looking like an adult's cubby house at the moment, but we have got
00:58a place where we can sort of bunker down and sort of a safe spot to go to, yeah.
01:03So who are you there with?
01:04Who's in your house?
01:05Me and my partner and we've got a couple of dogs as well, but yeah, it's just us four
01:12here at the moment.
01:13But yeah, it's a sit and wait game now.
01:16I know when there's storms approaching, animals can sometimes get a bit funny.
01:21How are your dogs?
01:22Are they showing signs of knowing something's about to happen?
01:24Well, yeah, they definitely are showing signs, but usually the lightning and thunder, they
01:29get a little bit of anxiety and stirred up, but today they've been real funny and sort
01:34of real quiet.
01:35Like they sort of have sensed that something's coming, but yeah, they've been real funny
01:41today, real clingy.
01:43Paul, this shot of the tree falling down, is that from your garden?
01:48That was yesterday.
01:49My partner, Em, actually caught that.
01:52She filmed that.
01:53That was at the front of the house yesterday.
01:54I noticed the roots were looking a bit funny there yesterday, and as she's walked out,
01:59it actually fell over just in front of her.
02:02Amazing.
02:03So it's been raining a lot over the last few days, has it?
02:07It's been, it's the last couple of days, it's been a little bit like a steady, consistent
02:11sort of a light rain, but sort of within the last couple of hours, it's really picked up
02:16and we're sort of having a lot more heavy rain, a lot more consistent now, and you can
02:20notice the roads are starting to fill up.
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