1 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:04,960 Speaker 1: Well, and eight people have died free are still missing 2 00:00:05,080 --> 00:00:09,640 Speaker 1: after heavy rain battered southeast Queensland. Get this woods more 3 00:00:09,720 --> 00:00:11,200 Speaker 1: water just to give you guys an idea of how 4 00:00:11,280 --> 00:00:14,840 Speaker 1: much is going on there. More water has fallen over 5 00:00:14,880 --> 00:00:19,560 Speaker 1: the weekend than fell over the entire six days of 6 00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:22,360 Speaker 1: the floods in the same area in twenty eleven, and 7 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:25,040 Speaker 1: that pretty much put Brisbane under water. Yeah, so the 8 00:00:25,600 --> 00:00:28,800 Speaker 1: river's the river is just it's nearly up at four 9 00:00:28,880 --> 00:00:32,960 Speaker 1: meters the Brisbane River. It's an enormous amount of an 10 00:00:33,040 --> 00:00:36,640 Speaker 1: unprecedented volume of water that is now up in and 11 00:00:36,640 --> 00:00:40,640 Speaker 1: around Queensland, and naturally that is causing havoc. As I said, 12 00:00:40,680 --> 00:00:42,600 Speaker 1: eight people dead. But to talk to us more about 13 00:00:42,640 --> 00:00:45,040 Speaker 1: it is Reese Dallas Sandro who joins Usonent Channel and 14 00:00:45,080 --> 00:00:46,280 Speaker 1: welcome Reese. Welcome to the show. 15 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:47,880 Speaker 2: Yeah, good afternoon, guys. 16 00:00:47,880 --> 00:00:50,159 Speaker 1: How are we really well? Thanks mate? How are you? 17 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:51,360 Speaker 1: What's the situation there? 18 00:00:51,760 --> 00:00:54,000 Speaker 2: Maye, we're a little bit wet, but I'll tell you what, 19 00:00:54,040 --> 00:00:55,720 Speaker 2: We're a lot less wet than what we were yesterday, 20 00:00:55,720 --> 00:00:58,840 Speaker 2: that's for sure. The sky's blue above, the sun is shining. 21 00:00:58,840 --> 00:01:00,880 Speaker 2: It's actually quite half and it's getting more and more 22 00:01:00,920 --> 00:01:03,280 Speaker 2: like every other flood I've covered, rather than the pouring 23 00:01:03,360 --> 00:01:05,720 Speaker 2: rain being here at the same time as the flood 24 00:01:05,720 --> 00:01:09,080 Speaker 2: as it was yesterday. Now just just flood everywhere you look, guys. 25 00:01:09,080 --> 00:01:10,480 Speaker 2: I mean I'm going to switch at the moment and 26 00:01:10,520 --> 00:01:12,080 Speaker 2: as it through this water everywhere. 27 00:01:11,880 --> 00:01:16,520 Speaker 1: You're standing on a house or something, people on houses getting. 28 00:01:16,240 --> 00:01:19,880 Speaker 2: Here lifts absolutely. I mean all of that's kind of unfolding. 29 00:01:19,880 --> 00:01:21,280 Speaker 2: And lise Moore and not all of the New South 30 00:01:21,319 --> 00:01:23,360 Speaker 2: Wales right because that's where this is where the system 31 00:01:23,480 --> 00:01:25,720 Speaker 2: is moving. It's moved south. It pummeled the Gold Coast 32 00:01:25,720 --> 00:01:28,080 Speaker 2: this morning and now places like Lismore and then all 33 00:01:28,080 --> 00:01:30,960 Speaker 2: the rivers regions of New South Wales are coppying. And 34 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:34,240 Speaker 2: it's all that same system that done literally a year's 35 00:01:34,280 --> 00:01:37,320 Speaker 2: worth of rain in one weekend right across South a 36 00:01:37,440 --> 00:01:42,119 Speaker 2: phenomenal years worth of rain, Yeah, in just forty eight 37 00:01:42,160 --> 00:01:44,360 Speaker 2: hours in some past. Yeah. That that's how quickly and 38 00:01:44,360 --> 00:01:46,880 Speaker 2: how intense this rain has been. I mean, it's all 39 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:49,360 Speaker 2: this flowing down the Bremer and Brisbane rivers now. So 40 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:51,800 Speaker 2: it's been freaking havoc all the way from from Ipswich 41 00:01:51,840 --> 00:01:53,960 Speaker 2: where I am the Staffternoon right for good now where 42 00:01:53,960 --> 00:01:56,840 Speaker 2: I was today and all the way through to Brisbane 43 00:01:56,840 --> 00:02:00,280 Speaker 2: City where you've seen pontoons letting go and and boats 44 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:03,200 Speaker 2: crashing down like that. It's absolute, can't it. 45 00:02:03,440 --> 00:02:05,840 Speaker 1: What's the most hectic thing you've seen so far? Rees? 46 00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:09,840 Speaker 2: Oh, guys, I mean just just inundation in general is 47 00:02:09,880 --> 00:02:12,399 Speaker 2: pretty hectic. But that's all stuff that you can sort 48 00:02:12,400 --> 00:02:14,600 Speaker 2: of see. Probably here a police car I think that 49 00:02:14,760 --> 00:02:18,040 Speaker 2: is now going through the CBD and it's switched traffic 50 00:02:18,080 --> 00:02:20,560 Speaker 2: mayhem here where we are this afternoon as well, because 51 00:02:20,600 --> 00:02:22,320 Speaker 2: I mean obviously everyone's coming out for a bit of 52 00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:25,440 Speaker 2: a look and so many roads cutting the CVD that 53 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:27,320 Speaker 2: there are just cars everywhere. But in terms of the 54 00:02:27,360 --> 00:02:29,800 Speaker 2: most ectic thing I've seen, I mean, it's probably going 55 00:02:29,880 --> 00:02:31,560 Speaker 2: to be the stuff close to Brisbane City. I mean 56 00:02:31,680 --> 00:02:34,440 Speaker 2: we've seen we've seen whole pontoons let go and and 57 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:38,240 Speaker 2: you know, million dollar yachts let go as well. So 58 00:02:38,280 --> 00:02:39,240 Speaker 2: what do you mean by let go? 59 00:02:39,480 --> 00:02:40,360 Speaker 1: By let go? 60 00:02:40,440 --> 00:02:43,639 Speaker 2: What do you mean something like they're breaking yeah, breaking 61 00:02:43,720 --> 00:02:46,000 Speaker 2: off their moorings are I think the situation with the 62 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:48,280 Speaker 2: yacht was that they actually they actually purposely let it 63 00:02:48,320 --> 00:02:51,440 Speaker 2: go because there was debris washing up against it. So 64 00:02:51,680 --> 00:02:54,160 Speaker 2: there's all different sort of situations there sort of happening 65 00:02:54,160 --> 00:02:56,120 Speaker 2: on the Brisbane River even as we as we go 66 00:02:56,200 --> 00:02:58,720 Speaker 2: to this afternoon with you guys. But in terms of 67 00:02:58,720 --> 00:03:00,440 Speaker 2: the most sick thing I've seen, it's got to be 68 00:03:00,480 --> 00:03:03,240 Speaker 2: the businesses here in Ipswich, guys. I mean yesterday they 69 00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:06,280 Speaker 2: had a few hours notice to get out and literally 70 00:03:06,320 --> 00:03:08,800 Speaker 2: we're just packing everything up as quickly as they could. 71 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:11,840 Speaker 2: I'm talking to pharmacy loading boxes of boxes of medicines 72 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:13,520 Speaker 2: onto the back of a truck and shipping them all 73 00:03:13,560 --> 00:03:16,440 Speaker 2: to high ground. So yeah, these are the businesses that 74 00:03:16,480 --> 00:03:18,040 Speaker 2: are now got three foot of water through them and 75 00:03:18,040 --> 00:03:21,360 Speaker 2: who are going to need everyone's support here when they 76 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:22,959 Speaker 2: managed to clean the mud out. I guess once this 77 00:03:23,040 --> 00:03:23,920 Speaker 2: water goes down. 78 00:03:23,960 --> 00:03:27,839 Speaker 1: And Reese, I know a gentleman went missing, I believe 79 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:29,960 Speaker 1: last night, Cameron Rodgers. 80 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:33,120 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right, guys. But some great news with him 81 00:03:33,240 --> 00:03:34,680 Speaker 2: this afternoon. And there hasn't been. 82 00:03:34,560 --> 00:03:36,360 Speaker 3: A lot of great news when it comes to applauding 83 00:03:36,600 --> 00:03:38,800 Speaker 3: flood rescues over the past couple of days. We've had 84 00:03:38,840 --> 00:03:41,360 Speaker 3: tragedy after tragedy. But I can tell you thirty two 85 00:03:41,440 --> 00:03:44,120 Speaker 3: year old Cameron Rodgers has found alive and well we 86 00:03:44,280 --> 00:03:47,080 Speaker 3: heard that news earlier this afternoon, which is just fantastic. 87 00:03:47,120 --> 00:03:49,480 Speaker 3: I've been in touch with his family over the past 88 00:03:49,480 --> 00:03:51,560 Speaker 3: of the twelve hours or so. They've just been beside 89 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:53,520 Speaker 3: themselves in tears, as you can imagine. 90 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:56,000 Speaker 2: Now now they're crying happy tears. They said they can't 91 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:57,760 Speaker 2: believe that this has not a complete one eighty I've 92 00:03:57,760 --> 00:04:00,720 Speaker 2: got off the phone with his sister only literally an 93 00:04:00,720 --> 00:04:02,800 Speaker 2: hour ago, and she said, it's gone from literally the 94 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:05,040 Speaker 2: worst day of our lives to the best and happiest 95 00:04:05,320 --> 00:04:07,640 Speaker 2: day of our lives. They are just so relieved. He's 96 00:04:07,680 --> 00:04:09,560 Speaker 2: told me the story of what happened to him as well. 97 00:04:09,560 --> 00:04:13,080 Speaker 2: It's unbelievable. So he got his fiance and his child 98 00:04:13,360 --> 00:04:16,080 Speaker 2: to safety with friends, then went back to their house 99 00:04:16,160 --> 00:04:19,440 Speaker 2: in the flood zone to save their animals. Basically, he 100 00:04:19,480 --> 00:04:22,200 Speaker 2: was going to try and get some of their animals out. 101 00:04:22,240 --> 00:04:25,040 Speaker 2: He struggled to get them out and then ended up 102 00:04:25,360 --> 00:04:28,320 Speaker 2: for fear of being washed away, ended up just going 103 00:04:28,360 --> 00:04:30,800 Speaker 2: to a house burned up the road, found higher ground 104 00:04:31,040 --> 00:04:33,919 Speaker 2: and it took shelter there. His phone died in the water. 105 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:36,279 Speaker 2: By that point they wasn't able to contact anyone, but 106 00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:38,720 Speaker 2: thankfully he managed to find shelter. That's where he spent 107 00:04:39,040 --> 00:04:41,720 Speaker 2: the more than twelve hours that he was missing, was 108 00:04:42,160 --> 00:04:45,280 Speaker 2: sheltering in this house. And he finally found him this morning, 109 00:04:45,320 --> 00:04:47,719 Speaker 2: which is great news. We're hearing he's okay and he 110 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:49,480 Speaker 2: just wants to spend time with his two girls. He 111 00:04:49,560 --> 00:04:52,200 Speaker 2: told us. That's some good news. 112 00:04:52,200 --> 00:04:58,839 Speaker 1: That a very very hectic situation. And from nine News 113 00:04:58,880 --> 00:05:01,839 Speaker 1: reporting in Queensland, Race, thanks so much for joining us Mite. 114 00:05:01,880 --> 00:05:03,760 Speaker 1: You guys can watch all the latest news updates on 115 00:05:03,839 --> 00:05:05,080 Speaker 1: nine News tonight at six pm. 116 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:07,320 Speaker 2: Thanks, Race, pleasure to talk to you soon. 117 00:05:07,440 --> 00:05:08,120 Speaker 3: Hear more of 118 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:11,440 Speaker 1: The boys on the full podcast just scroll up.