00:02Recent rain like finding gold at the end of the rainbow.
00:06It's quite remarkable to see our entire state, South Australia,
00:10from the very south to the Northern Territory border, entirely green.
00:14That's something we don't see very often.
00:17In the Riverland, something grain farmer Robin Schaefer has never seen.
00:22The downpour's broken all previous records for this time of year.
00:26It's almost been a bit foreign to us for the last few years.
00:28You're looking at every cloud in the sky
00:31to bring you another little drop of rain just to keep things going.
00:33A welcome change to what's usually found in the gauge.
00:36Usually it's shake the rain gauge in for dust, I think.
00:40But we haven't even got a spider in the rain gauge.
00:43He's gone and left completely.
00:45The Onkaparinga River at Harndorf in the hills breaking its banks.
00:49Waterfall Gully putting on a show,
00:51while floodwaters lap at the edges of the Bridgewater Inn.
00:55It's really been the result of three weather systems
00:57which have all come through in rapid succession.
01:00In the city, the deluge turned James Congdon Drive into a water feature
01:04and completely flooded this pedestrian bridge in the parklands.
01:08The SES has taken more than 350 calls for help in the last two days.
01:13Most of those have been trees down
01:15and we have seen some minor flooding of businesses and properties as well.
01:19The state government has activated a code blue for people sleeping rough,
01:24meaning homeless support services will stay open longer
01:27to help more people stay warm and dry.
01:29The Bureau of Meteorology says there's still a sting in the tail of the system,
01:34but there'll be more settled conditions for the weekend.
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