00:005th generation grazier Stephen Hoare was just days away from shearing at his Quilpie property.
00:09Now he's counting the loss of more than 5,000 sheep.
00:13Where it's really going to hit us is in the bank count because we've lost our sheep,
00:19we've lost our wool clip. That's 12 months work and now it's all gone.
00:25We've got a very difficult time ahead.
00:28At first the prospect of rain had been welcome.
00:32They give us a prediction of 40 to 50 mil and I thought oh this would be great,
00:37it might put shearing back and give us a bit of feed.
00:39But once the rain started it didn't stop.
00:43Put another three and a half foot of water on top of 1974, that's just unheard of.
00:49And we could just hear the river roaring and it was just like a plane going over all night.
00:54It went for at least 15, 16 hours with just that dull rule.
00:58In Quilpie the pub owners have opened their doors to evacuees from the neighbouring township of Adavale.
01:05I think they just needed a shoulder to lean on for the first part, just because the shock was so great.
01:11And so we just talked to them and looked after them as best we could, gave them a hug where they needed it.
01:17Long term residents say it's the worst flooding they've ever seen.
01:22I was just sitting there watching it climb up my steps and I thought this is going to be serious, which it was.
01:28Some have suffered greater losses than others.
01:32It come out and into my beer shed, knocked the bloody sheet off the back wall,
01:37and I had six cartons of cans there, they've gone down the creek.
01:41I don't know where they are.
01:43While there's talk of moving on, others say they are staying put.
01:48We'll get by, rebuild and have another go.
01:52In Quilpie the pub, rebuild and have another go.
01:54We'll go there and chill.
01:56We'll go there and chill.
01:58Ok, right.
02:00Now that goes down in the spring of the side.
02:03And there are two options.
02:05I said that I have a majority of three options,
02:07so that the interests are.
02:09And there are two options.
02:11I think the other options can beìš”.
02:13When I am in the middle of the side.
02:15I'm in the middle of the side.
02:17So I'm in the middle of the side.
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