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Speaker 1: This is jem Nisan We jonesy Land for the Bureau

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Speaker 1: of Meteorology was expecting the Lachland River to peak overnight

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Speaker 1: and into this morning still going at ten point eight meters. Now,

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Speaker 1: as we said earlier, these are similar readings to the

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Speaker 1: nineteen fifty two floods, and this is the second time

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Speaker 1: in two weeks the entire township of Forbes finds itself

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Speaker 1: in a waiting game to see what will unfold on

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Speaker 1: the ground or actually in the back of an army

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Speaker 1: truck as we speak. Is Channel seven reporter of Miley Hogan.

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Speaker 2: Hello, Miley, good morning, I should say back of the

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Speaker 2: RFS truck.

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Speaker 1: The RFS truck, okay, and what are you seeing this morning?

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Speaker 1: What are the water levels? What's the state of Forbes?

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Speaker 2: Well, look, we're on the back of this RFS truck

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Speaker 2: because they've kindly invited us on to have a look

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Speaker 2: at these floodwaters. It's actually one of the only ways

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Speaker 2: in and out of town at the moment, and actually

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Speaker 2: one of the only ways to move through it. The

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Speaker 2: floodwaters have come up so much they've split the town

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Speaker 2: into three. They've got norths out of the CBD. The

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Speaker 2: CBD there being a bit of an island completely surrounded

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Speaker 2: by floodwaters. So the trusts are being used to help

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Speaker 2: people get in and out do evacuations, but also bring

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Speaker 2: in crucial supplies like food and medicine. At the moment,

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Speaker 2: we're just couples out glass On. The hospital that picked

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Speaker 2: up Myrtle also picked up the local police officers to

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Speaker 2: help bring them over and change them people out. So

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Speaker 2: it's all happening down here and Forbes at the moment.

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Speaker 1: I heard yesterday that there were predictions that maybe six

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Speaker 1: hundred houses might go under in Forbes and around that area.

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Speaker 1: Is that what's looking likely?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, that faced on the town planning maps that

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Speaker 2: it could be around six hundred properties, including businesses, impacted

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Speaker 2: by these floods. Now, certainly when we say impacted, that

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Speaker 2: that could mean water in the front yards up to

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Speaker 2: the front doorsteps. But it does look like some people

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Speaker 2: do have water through their homes at this stage as well.

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Speaker 2: The town is well rehearsed in this, which is kind

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Speaker 2: of an unfortunate thing to say, but this is the

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Speaker 2: second time it's almost reached that nineteen fifty two level

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Speaker 2: in two weeks, so a lot of people actually who

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Speaker 2: had stuffered to free through their home and damage and

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Speaker 2: about living through it again. They haven't even finished cleaning up,

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Speaker 2: but sab bags are still in place. So it's just

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Speaker 2: a matter of watching that water now and seeing where

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Speaker 2: the people come because it wasn't around ten point six

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Speaker 2: the last time I checked that was at four am

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Speaker 2: this morning, but they are expecting it to reach ten

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Speaker 2: point eight, which is that money to keep well?

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Speaker 3: And you were saying with the shopping center, that's virtually

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Speaker 3: an island, so does that have power and everything at

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Speaker 3: that moment.

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Speaker 2: There is still power in the center of the town,

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Speaker 2: which is good. It's you know, we've been able to

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Speaker 2: charge battery's phone. But there's nothing open. There's not a

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Speaker 2: single store open. The only food shop that was giving

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Speaker 2: people supplies this morning. I've gone past there and it's

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Speaker 2: actually completely surrounded by water. You can't get in and out.

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Speaker 2: So you know, people are relying on what they have

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Speaker 2: held in their homes, or they're moving out and evacuating

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Speaker 2: to those evacuation centers being buried out by the RFS

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Speaker 2: and the FS. Wow.

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Speaker 1: I saw a story yesterday with this saying that there's

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Speaker 1: a lack of unleaded fuel, so people trying to evacuate

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Speaker 1: some of them can't even get use their cars.

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Speaker 2: Well, you wouldn't be able to get fuel informed at

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Speaker 2: the moment since the only petrol station that I've laid

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Speaker 2: eyes on is flooded, So I don't know, And you

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Speaker 2: wouldn't be able to drive out either if you are

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Speaker 2: in here. So if people, if they do need to

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Speaker 2: be evacuated, the only way that they are able to

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Speaker 2: get out is by boat or on the back of

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Speaker 2: an RFS truck. And even the RFS that I was

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Speaker 2: having a chat to him just earlier, it's starting to

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Speaker 2: get a bit too high for them to get their

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Speaker 2: trucks through, so they're having to put people on boats instead.

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Speaker 1: Wow, criky.

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Speaker 3: Well, Miley, thank you so much. Thanks judiful coverage of

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Speaker 3: the floods on seven News tonight. Marleygan, thank you for

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Speaker 3: joining us.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Thanks Miley. We're also going to be talking

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Speaker 1: to the premiere this morning.

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Speaker 3: You know, I remember being out there what twenty eighteen

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Speaker 3: with the guys whom lived to ride. We did this

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Speaker 3: big right, we're out of Forbes, and I remember getting

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Speaker 3: petrol and on my bike and I said to the guy,

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Speaker 3: do you think it's going to rain. He goes, Oh,

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Speaker 3: good luck with that. We haven't a rain for eight.

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Speaker 1: That's the thing. Hard to imagine. They're now underwater. And

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Speaker 1: and how does your mental health cope with that? You've

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Speaker 1: lost your business, you've lost your house. Here we go again.

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Speaker 1: We'll put all that to the preimeter. Yeah, but what

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Speaker 1: if you can't. What if your township's gone