00:00It's been two weeks since Bloodwater ripped through his trade services business, but Jeff
00:08Pike won't forget when a temporary levy failed, the wall of water threatened all in its path.
00:14It's a gut-wrenching feeling knowing that your friends are in this situation where you
00:19don't know how that's going to pan out. Oh my god. I'll never ever forget it. Never ever
00:24forget it. The result, complete inundation, the impact laid bare. As a visual imprint it
00:30feels like a dead-set war zone. Mud cakes the floors of office buildings where
00:36paperwork and furniture has turned to debris. What do you do? How do you deal with that?
00:42The damage bill is rising. Close to a mill I'd reckon. It's probably what we've done.
00:47And you're not insured here are you? We're not insured, no. In town, mud is being
00:53cleaned from homes. A lifetime of belongings put out to dry. A flood, when it goes
00:59through your house only 23 centimetres, becomes very personal. It looks bloody
01:02terrible but it is drying out nicely. Donna Humphreys had water through her home and
01:07business. In her backyard, a storage container with wedding pictures in a
01:12football jersey that belonged to her late son, all completely soaked. But she
01:18counts herself lucky. But I do know that there are, you know, there are people that have lost everything.
01:22Locals were racing against the clock three weeks ago to construct the levee behind me but it
01:28was no match for the torrent of flood waters that hit Thargaminda. It's being torn down but
01:34with kilometres of dirt to be removed, it's a process that's going to take days. In this
01:40recovery will be more than two years.
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