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Speaker 1: Well.

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Speaker 2: Speaking of storms, the cleanup will continue this morning in

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Speaker 2: Munga Phi after a tornado ripped through the beachside northern town.

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Speaker 2: Around fifty buildings received damage and two people were taken

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Speaker 2: to hospital with serious injuries, one of them thrown out

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Speaker 2: of her second story house while sleeping. Yikes. Northern Power

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Speaker 2: says some areas will be without power for much of

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Speaker 2: the day. Grant McCallum is the MP for Orphaned and

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Speaker 2: he's been in Mungafi surveying the damage and he joins me, now,

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Speaker 2: good lord, Grant, what on earth struck the place?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, good morning, Raman. Yeah, it was. It was pretty devastating.

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Speaker 1: It was. It's quite uncanny. We will see those pictures

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Speaker 1: in America where the tornadoes go through town and you'll

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Speaker 1: go there'll be a strip with our destruction on either side.

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Speaker 1: Not now, pretty okay, And that was pretty much what

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Speaker 1: it was like. And it was just it was just phenomenal.

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Speaker 1: It was one of the fire Emergency Control of They

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Speaker 1: told us the worst he's ever seen from a tornado.

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Speaker 1: That he's very experienced. There's not the Jilm's history of

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Speaker 1: tornadoes is not nearly that destruct as a whole, So

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Speaker 1: that's just amazing. It's just a totally devastation. Are really

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Speaker 1: few of the people that have had their lives turned

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Speaker 1: upside down? In some cases quite literally?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, look, there'd be a lot of people just wondering

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Speaker 2: what's next and literally, who's going to help me? What

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Speaker 2: is the latest information that you've heard from from the

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Speaker 2: local authorities.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well we at the end of the day yesterday

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Speaker 1: things have been clean up with progressing pretty well in

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Speaker 1: terms of getting rid of the trees from the from

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Speaker 1: the roads and getting the power power back on. The

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Speaker 1: there was a numerous poles down broken. Some of the

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Speaker 1: poles are smashing the little pieces, you know, the concrete

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Speaker 1: poles pieces, and North Power did a great job of

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Speaker 1: putting getting the power back on unfortunately, because we'll probably

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Speaker 1: all been back on by about midnight last night, but

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Speaker 1: some of the reasons took to cutting the wires across

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Speaker 1: their driveway, which slowed down the progress. Not something recommended

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Speaker 1: to treat all wires as live at all time, please people,

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Speaker 1: because there's no guarantee that they won't be and we

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Speaker 1: don't need that into the challenges we've got.

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Speaker 2: No, absolutely not. You know how television always focuses on

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Speaker 2: the worst picture, and they go back to the worst picture.

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Speaker 2: How widespread was this, how much? How much of that

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Speaker 2: damage was isolated just a couple of very tight little

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Speaker 2: areas as opposed to a wider region.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was. It was only relevant small area. They

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Speaker 1: said in your leader about fifty homes affected, and some

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Speaker 1: of them, some of them were just completely devastate a handful. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it was only a very concentrated area, two concentrated areas,

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Speaker 1: and the devastation was immense. And where it did hit,

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Speaker 1: you know, you couldn't believe. It's some big trees that

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Speaker 1: have been there for well over one hundred years. It's

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Speaker 1: like flat cars crushed, you know, and people just distraught.

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Speaker 1: And one lady came up to us as we were

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Speaker 1: having a looked around and said, this a husband needed

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Speaker 1: when they needed boughter to flush the toilet. And this

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Speaker 1: is suppose what happens in is as like this. I

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Speaker 1: said to the label, you've got a water tank, Yes,

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Speaker 1: you've got a bucket, Yes you've got a rope. Yes,

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Speaker 1: we'll chuck the bucket in the tank, and just clearly

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Speaker 1: whereas we can think clearly because you're coming to the

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Speaker 1: outside and when you be caught up in a pretty.

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Speaker 2: Devastating absolutely, Grant McCallum, north of the MP thank you

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Speaker 2: so much for your time this morning on Early Edition.

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Speaker 2: I hope you get some central government support as well.

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Speaker 2: Even though it's small, it will be expensive.

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