00:02Yeah, no, mate, look, probably about 8.30 to 9 o'clock this morning, the worst if it hit us.
00:06It got pretty hectic there for a couple of hours.
00:09It's died off now.
00:10We've still got a bit of wind and rain's just finally died off.
00:13But, yeah, we've got trees and roofs down everywhere, so it's got a bit interesting.
00:17Yeah, and we can see those trees behind you.
00:20Have they kind of been stripped of most of their vegetation?
00:23Yeah, well, if you have a look all the way around, there's not a lot of leaves left on any
00:27of the trees all around us.
00:29So it's all pretty much bare.
00:31And what was it like at the worst of it with the wind?
00:37Oh, yeah, no, it had a bit going on.
00:40We all sort of bunkered down, so we got these steel containers here that are all bolted down and everything,
00:45so we were in them sheltered through most of it.
00:48Yeah, and so you basically got into these shipping containers.
00:52If you could just swing around and show us again because we weren't on you when you showed us last
00:56time.
00:57So, yeah, you spent a couple of hours in there.
01:00How many of you were in there?
01:03So there's five adults and four kids, yep.
01:05Yeah.
01:06And you went in there because it got kind of so full on that you were concerned that the main
01:11buildings might go?
01:14Well, yeah, everything was moving and shuddering and iron was slapping everywhere.
01:18So, yeah, it's just sort of there's a bit of a few trees lying around, a few debris flying everywhere.
01:22So a bit safe for the kids, isn't it?
01:24Yeah.
01:24And how did the kids go in there through it?
01:28Oh, they were a bit nervous at the start of it.
01:29At the end of it, they thought it was a bit of a game.
01:31They enjoyed themselves.
01:33And was it kind of the wind roaring around you at that stage?
01:38So I went through, I've been through, we went through Ingrid and Monica and that up here and it didn't
01:43roar like they did.
01:44Oh, right.
01:44But it's definitely moving a hell of a lot quicker.
01:47Yeah.
01:48And so what's the worst of the damage on your place?
01:51So over behind me over here, we've got the big machinery shed.
01:54So the roof's gone off it, the hay shed's gone completely and also the other car shed over there is,
02:00yeah, not real flash.
02:03And was there kind of bits and pieces of corrugated iron flying around at that stage?
02:08Yeah, you can't really see it from where I am, but straight over behind me over here, there's a couple
02:13of pieces of iron wrapped around a tree and, yeah, it's a bit interesting.
02:17Yeah, and you must have been concerned at that stage with bits and pieces of things flying around, it's about
02:25how dangerous it can be.
02:27Yeah, no, we had a couple of things slap up against the container, like it's right at the bottom of
02:30the container, there's a piece of iron here that come off the shed roof.
02:33Yeah.
02:33So that come up and hit the side of the container.
02:35Yeah.
02:35Bit of a whack?
02:37Yeah.
02:38Made a bit of a racket.
02:40And any flooding risk on your property now?
02:44Not on our property, but the Archer River Roadhouse, they're probably going to come here shortly because the bridge, the
02:50new, brand new bridge that we put there, it's going under at the moment and the roadhouse is getting a
02:54bit closer with water.
02:56All right, so you'll have a few visitors at your place for a while?
03:00Yeah, you'll see what the river does, the river might stop coming up hopefully.
03:03Yeah.
03:04And a lot of fences to fix on your place now?
03:08Yeah, no, there'll be a hell of a lot of green ants and a hell of a lot of chainsawing.
03:11Yeah, a lot of work for you?
03:14It'll keep us busy for the next couple of months.
03:18And are you kind of born and bred on the property there?
03:22Yeah, yeah, third generation here with us, so we've been here a while.
03:26Yeah.
03:26And what do you love about the place?
03:30Oh, for me it's just the country, you know, I don't like being in town.
03:35Even when it gets like this?
03:37I'd still rather be here.
03:40Good stuff.
03:41Okay, William, thanks so much for having a chat to us and good to hear that you got through this
03:45okay.
03:47No worries.
03:47Do this for us.
03:48I'll be right back.
03:49Bye-bye.
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