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Speaker 1: Right weather. Let's check in on the East Coast wire specifically,

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Speaker 1: we've got the state of emergency, the evacuations, the multi

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Speaker 1: multiple orange warnings. The chair of the Wire Business Association,

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Speaker 1: Sue Wilson with us. So very good morning to you them,

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Speaker 1: aren't we do we greet you on a wet, miserable morning.

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Speaker 2: Yes, it's a store raining quite heavily where we are at.

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Speaker 1: The moment, and so what happened overnight, Look, it.

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Speaker 2: Was pretty calm, the river was store flowing. High tide

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Speaker 2: was at around nine o'clock and we've got another high

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Speaker 2: tide later on this morning. So hopefully the weather will

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Speaker 2: come down a little bit and we'll see this rain.

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Speaker 1: Any assessment of the damage so far calls to businesses

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Speaker 1: and homes and so forth.

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Speaker 2: Look, the majority of our main street businesses we're not

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Speaker 2: affected this time. However, there are a number of other

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Speaker 2: businesses that have been hugely impacted and it's going to

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Speaker 2: be some time before they're up and running again, and

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Speaker 2: we're really you are feeling for them. We've got, you know,

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Speaker 2: some agricultural businesses that are affected. Had two major Angus

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Speaker 2: bull sales that were meant to be held this week

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Speaker 2: there's going to be a huge impact for them. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So it's ongoing and I Counsel doing a great job

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Speaker 2: and they'll be talking to businesses as they've got.

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Speaker 1: That's the vibe I got right up the East coast

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Speaker 1: there that the response this time was we learned from

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Speaker 1: last year, we did it better this time. Is that fair?

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Speaker 2: Absolutely? Yep. There's been a lot soon and people were

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Speaker 2: prepared to talking to a couple of business association members,

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Speaker 2: they were prepared their staff, we're prepared. Even though there

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Speaker 2: was powered as yesterday, some of them got by. So

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Speaker 2: that's really good to hear.

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Speaker 1: Good to hear. So go well this weekend. We're thinking obviously. Wilson,

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Speaker 1: Chair of the Way I row A Business Association. Twelve

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