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Speaker 1: If you are waking up this morning, Maddi de greet

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Speaker 1: Lizbor today is our premier dominic pair of te Thanks

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Speaker 1: for joining us tom morning.

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Speaker 3: Guys, are you going good?

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Speaker 2: Mate? Where are you at the moment?

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Speaker 3: Just on transit across to liz Moore. But obviously there's

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Speaker 3: yesterday we appointed Deputy Police Commission of malelaneon to coordinate

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Speaker 1: Can we focus on Lizmore dom is it basically has

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Speaker 3: Well, it's terrible. I've never seen anything like it. I mean,

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Speaker 2: I'm closer to the city here camped and the mainly

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Speaker 1: So true we know how busy you are, premiere. Is

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Speaker 1: that we really appreciate, appreciate your time. Good luck in

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Speaker 1: Obviously there's going to be some harrowing images that you

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Speaker 1: So, I mean, the only positive I suppose with that

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Speaker 5: The sees were very, very busy.

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Speaker 1: If you've been effected, give us twelve thirteen, twenty fourteen.

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Speaker 2: Jimmy, what about your house made much damage there?

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Speaker 1: And there's all that drift water as well, and it's

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Speaker 2: All floods down from the Hawksbury, so you've got all

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Speaker 5: Water, heat in Orang Park. Your work has been affected

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Speaker 6: No, I did at management report yesterday, but most of

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Speaker 2: And Heath says that you're putting your feet up, saying,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, of course, Heath, that'll be so I can't land

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Speaker 5: Heath, not ready yet, Okay. Shantelle and tom or what's

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Speaker 2: With the floods?

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Speaker 2: Oh now, how flooded was it? Chantelle?

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Speaker 8: The carpets went halfway through to the middle of the room.

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Speaker 8: We couldn't handle it, so we had to rip them up.

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Speaker 1: See, this is the thing like, even if you do

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Speaker 1: a huge problem. Well, if you've got kids, it's horrible.

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Speaker 2: Imagine how busy they'll be. I mean, you're right, and

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Speaker 1: We spoke to our premiere, Dominic Perrote earlier today and

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Speaker 3: We've got forty thousand people subject to evacuation orders and

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Speaker 2: We heed the warning. What about this one? On a

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Speaker 2: We've received a lot of rain overnight, a lot of

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Speaker 5: Excuse the language.

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Speaker 2: That's a smart ass car has completely drenched on the

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Speaker 1: I mean it's affected a lot of people this morning.

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Speaker 1: Blinda and Mount Cola. What happened to your place while

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Speaker 1: you're on your honeymoon, Blinda.

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Speaker 9: Ah, the honeymoon was amazing and Tasmania the weather was perfect.

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Speaker 9: and our garage in Mount Cola was completely flooded. We've

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Speaker 9: It's nothing in comparison to people from Lismore and the

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Speaker 2: No, yeah, yeah, Blinda, anything really special that you've lost?

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Speaker 1: Well said you found love, Belinda, So you still love him.

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Speaker 1: I mean it's only the honeymoon, but you still love him.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, Well, the honeymoon's over, but I'll tell you what it's. Yeah,

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Speaker 8: You know.

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Speaker 9: It's still month for eight years.

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Speaker 2: And over the honeymoon.

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Speaker 6: Yes, he doesn't listen.

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Speaker 9: To you guys though, So there is an issue. I've

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Speaker 1: On board to work on that. Please, thank you so

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Speaker 1: much for you call Felicity on the Central Coast. What

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Speaker 10: Live in a place called Tugrawong. This is they've been

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Speaker 10: The seaweed's been in. They've had to move everything from

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Speaker 10: I don't know what it was last year, and they

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Speaker 1: So, yeah, to Felicity, you know, there's a lot of

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Speaker 10: Yeah, it's interesting you should ask that because my husband's

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Speaker 10: moving into one hundred year flood zone. Oh yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 10: that'll be okay. And I think yeah. My girlfriend said

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Speaker 10: And then the neighbors, a couple of them are actually

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Speaker 2: So amazing too, though, that for the third year in

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Speaker 10: Well, that's going to be a thing, isn't it. I

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Speaker 5: Wow, it was mad ridiculous. Northern Beaches. Yesterday was just

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Speaker 1: Michael Reagan, who is the Mayor of the Northern Beaches,

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Speaker 5: Thanks for joining us, Michael, Thanks for having.

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Speaker 2: Me, Michael. Some of the images were unbelievable. I mean yesterday,

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Speaker 7: Yah? It was pretty bifficult, wasn't it. I mean we

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Speaker 1: Isaid the first time that you've ever known that there's

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Speaker 2: Michael?

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Speaker 7: Probably the first time for myself. I think some of them,

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Speaker 5: Are they still surfers out? Michael?

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Speaker 7: I was down there this morning at seven o'clock and

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Speaker 2: Isn't that?

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Speaker 5: Well, you think they'd be debris in the water as well.

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Speaker 7: There of course, there'd be debris in the water and

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Speaker 7: And you know, the experts they stay out. So the

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Speaker 7: majority of us stay out. But look, we're not doing

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Speaker 2: Thank you for your time, Mike, and good luck with

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Speaker 2: everything today, mate.

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Speaker 7: No, thank you very much for your checking in always.

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