00:00Just huge rain that didn't stop. Started on the Sunday night and yeah we hardly had a break for
00:06five or six days which is really unusual. There was so much water and the water couldn't get away
00:11so then the flood came along and we live right on the creek obviously so we're used to the water
00:18coming up and down but it stayed up for a lot longer than the normal and we didn't know when
00:25it would go down again which was probably the frightening bit. There was a lot of country
00:30that was flooded, a lot of fences that were flooded. We lost some stuff not as significantly
00:34as others in the area because fortunately it had been really dry so all of our sheep were in the
00:41Malga country and our cattle were in the Malga country which is harder and they had been living
00:46there so we lost fewer than others in the area where they didn't have anywhere to go. So many layers
00:52of
00:54impact across the community. You've got your residents like Ada Vale and Araminga who are
00:59impacted by flood water and then you've got your rural sector which and your truck drivers,
01:06your businesses, everything that comes in behind that and their impact comes at a different rate
01:12and a different pace and a different awareness of the impact on them and so it's navigating that
01:20and identifying, isolating each impact as it arises in the community and being ready to respond
01:26with it. It's like being an octopus. You've got a hand in every bite, trying to sort of best hold
01:34the community together and help them navigate through that.
01:37All right.
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