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Speaker 2: and Amanda jam Nation.

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Speaker 1: Been a horror week for residents of the North. The

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Speaker 1: northern New South Wales and mid North Coast once again

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Speaker 1: covered with huge down Paul's deadly floods. Three people have died,

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Speaker 1: fifty thousand have been left isolated. SEES has carried out

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Speaker 1: one hundred and seventy seven of flood rescues across the state.

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Speaker 1: One hundred and fifty three warnings are in place. Forty

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Speaker 1: of those are ATN emergency level.

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Speaker 3: Jeep.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, an old maid of mine. Paul Stanley, Not Paul

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Speaker 2: Stanley from Kiss, who is a close personal friend of mine,

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Speaker 2: by the way. Jonesy, Yeah, personal friend, but Paul Stanley.

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Speaker 2: We shared the radio together when we worked in Musclebrook.

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Speaker 2: Paul lives in tari In twenty twenty two, he was

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Speaker 2: inundated in his house was flooded. We're catching up with

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Speaker 2: him right now.

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Speaker 1: Hello Paul.

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Speaker 3: Oh, Hello Amanda Jonesy. Nice to hear your Golden voices.

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Speaker 3: You got pretty a smile on my dial while we

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Speaker 3: watched the carnage around here. The devastation. Yeah, horrible, poor.

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Speaker 1: Thing, Paul. So what's the state. Let's start with you

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Speaker 1: with your house.

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Speaker 3: Mine went halfway up into the house where I am

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Speaker 3: and it's never been flooded ever before. It was always

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Speaker 3: flood proof, but this one has been unprecedented with the

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Speaker 3: height of the flood. You know, I got up to

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Speaker 3: six point four or five meters, which is never done

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Speaker 3: around here. And that height was measured on Wednesday night

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Speaker 3: at around six pm. You know, I was lucky to

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Speaker 3: get out Tuesday morning and I did grab a managed

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Speaker 3: to grab a batch of good stuff. But there's still

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Speaker 3: a lot of like furniture, white goods, clothing not clothing,

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Speaker 3: the bedding and blankets and things like that. And what

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Speaker 3: happens is everything swirls around inside your homes. But you know,

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Speaker 3: for those poor people that the houses were totally under,

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Speaker 3: it's just devastating. And people from further out that are

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Speaker 3: near the river just getting inundated with flood water as

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Speaker 3: well and being rescued. It's just incredible, mind blowing.

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Speaker 1: Still, yeah, people just being rescued, winched from the from

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Speaker 1: their roofs, terrifying and leaving houses that they know will

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Speaker 1: be destroyed, even going back, as you say, to your place, Paul,

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Speaker 1: the mud, the mank the exhaustion of the process that's

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Speaker 1: still to come.

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Speaker 3: I just hope that there's going to be a lot

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Speaker 3: of volunteers that come, but they'll need to be self contained, obviously,

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Speaker 3: in their caravans or their r vs or something like that,

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Speaker 3: because there's no accommodation. I am homeless. I'm living out

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Speaker 3: of a van. I'm living at a friend's place, but

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Speaker 3: he's also got other people here staying that don't have

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Speaker 3: a van, so I can sleep in my vana, you know,

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Speaker 3: allocate a bit of a bedroom for others. But yeah, look,

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Speaker 3: I'll get a with you guys. I've got a face

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Speaker 3: for radio. You know that, well, you.

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Speaker 2: Do the cross country Forward Secret sound.

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Speaker 3: Again. What are people doing?

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Speaker 1: What are people doing for food? I mean, well, trucks

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Speaker 1: aren't going to the shops. What's happening?

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Speaker 3: No, I don't know. I don't know. I'm kind of

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Speaker 3: stuck in a bit of a bubble. So when I

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Speaker 3: say that, I don't know what's going on a lot

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Speaker 3: only what I read on the internet. And some shops

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Speaker 3: have had food, but I don't know how that's going

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Speaker 3: to evolve, honestly, because this whole town, Wingham, Old Bar,

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Speaker 3: all those surrounding areas, they're all just blocked and you

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Speaker 3: can't get to them at all, and it will be days.

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Speaker 3: And I was reading this morning on Google Maps, when

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Speaker 3: I press on the X on the Tari Bridget says

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Speaker 3: it's not going to open until August, and I'm thinking,

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Speaker 3: what the hell, you know? I can't imagine. Maybe they're

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Speaker 3: just covering the butck to start with. I don't really know,

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Speaker 3: but it was had water up to the bottom of it,

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Speaker 3: maybe when over it a bit which was never ever

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Speaker 3: seen ever. And it's a big, massive bridge, So I

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Speaker 3: don't know. All my family that owned the farm where

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Speaker 3: I live. I grew up there and they own it now.

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Speaker 3: My brother and his children they can't get to town

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Speaker 3: and they've got to come into town to go to

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Speaker 3: the farm. They're out at Old Bar and Wallaby Point.

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Speaker 3: So I don't know what's going to happen, and obviously

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Speaker 3: so many people that, Yeah, it's just devastating. I hope.

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Speaker 3: I think the government are sending assistance. I would like

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Speaker 3: to hope, so in the form of volunteers and the

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Speaker 3: Defense Force and whatever else. I would really hope.

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Speaker 2: That the government, Lindsay is on it, Chris Minds is

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Speaker 2: on the case. And I don't think you guys are

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Speaker 2: I guess got to stay dry, mate.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and look there's no power for days, you know

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Speaker 3: in our areas, and now pumps, the pump water, you know,

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Speaker 3: they're all gone. Food in the fridge will be off.

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Speaker 3: We're going to throw out so much stuff and we

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Speaker 3: need people to help us. And we're going to get

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Speaker 3: in early to clean the mud and the walls and

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Speaker 3: whatever we can and get all this stuff out before

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Speaker 3: it goes dry hard and starts to stink internally in

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Speaker 3: the house. Yeah, it's a it's a nightmare. It's horrific. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: sleepless nights at the moment.

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Speaker 2: But we're thinking of your mate, Thank you.

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Speaker 3: Thank you appreciate it. Then I hope this little bill

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Speaker 3: might tell people to grab their caravans or their RVs

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Speaker 3: and get those gun boots on and lend a help.

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Speaker 3: If this is what Australians do, you know, they help,

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Speaker 3: They come out of the woodwork and they help, and

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Speaker 3: yeah we need food as well. I'm sure there'll be

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Speaker 3: a lot of fresh food that won't be available.

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Speaker 2: On your mate.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you again.

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Speaker 3: I love chatting with you. Jones.

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Speaker 2: You know that.

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Speaker 3: You too, Thanks mate.

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Speaker 2: Thank you down there reporting live as it happens, but

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Speaker 2: it as well before and then to have it again,

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Speaker 2: you know.

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Speaker 1: And the people that get rescued say, at least I've

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Speaker 1: got my life, but then the rest of it. I

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Speaker 1: saw an SEES worker whose children had to be rescued.

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Speaker 1: She was out there volunteering for others, and then she

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Speaker 1: was finally reunited with her own children. There's so many

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Speaker 1: heartbreaking stories.

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Speaker 2: The weather forecast rain is expected to ease and clear

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Speaker 2: from the state on Saturday, but the flooding, of course,

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Speaker 2: will linger