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Speaker 1: All eyes are on Catherine at this point in time. Now, Catherine,

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Speaker 1: they're a resilient bunch, there's no doubt about it, and

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Speaker 1: they're always pretty prepared for the weather. Joining me on

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Speaker 1: the line is Trent to with good morning to your Trent.

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Speaker 2: Morning Katie.

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Speaker 1: Trent, how are things looking this morning in Kytown?

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Speaker 2: We don't actually know. I mean, yeah, look, it's a

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Speaker 2: pretty fast evolving situation. The gorge is still rising well

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Speaker 2: above major flood level, and we're watching the river in

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Speaker 2: town rise flat out as well. I don't know how

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Speaker 2: high it's going to go, Katie. So I'm as we speak,

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Speaker 2: lifting everything in my shop because no one's giving me

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Speaker 2: a direct answer on how high it's going to be,

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Speaker 2: and no one can tell you, And so I mean, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I'm loading a van right now full of all my

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Speaker 2: firearms to get them out of this town. Oh my,

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Speaker 2: because we don't know what to do, k We don't

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Speaker 2: know how high it's going to go. It's going to

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Speaker 2: come in the front door of the shop. Is it

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Speaker 2: going to be higher than ninety eight? So we just

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Speaker 2: don't know. Because the major thing is the gorgeous still rising.

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Speaker 2: It hasn't even peaked yet, so Trent.

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Speaker 1: We caught up with the Chief Minister a short time ago.

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Speaker 1: I know that the schools are going to be you know,

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Speaker 1: will parents need to pick the kids up basically by midday.

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Speaker 1: There is that emergency meeting I believe happening now. She'd

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Speaker 1: said to us that within the next couple of hours,

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Speaker 1: I think they're expecting that that river to reach seventeen

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Speaker 1: point five meters. It could go up, you know, to

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Speaker 1: eighteen point five. Everybody's keeping an eye on that. I mean,

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Speaker 1: how high did it go in ninety eight and what

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Speaker 1: are you thinking is going to happen?

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Speaker 2: Well, ninety eight was over twenty one meters. The rumor

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Speaker 2: mill is full noise in town at the moment with

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Speaker 2: you know, up to twenty meters, and that's coming from

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Speaker 2: internal stuff, you know. So yeah, I don't know, Kay,

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Speaker 2: we just don't know what to do here and whether

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Speaker 2: or not eighteen meters that is that it or have

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Speaker 2: they got more information that it's going to come higher

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Speaker 2: than that, And they don't want to panic the public

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Speaker 2: because for me, I'm like, well, I've got you know,

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Speaker 2: over a million merthy you're sitting in stock that I

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Speaker 2: got to deal with, And I'm like what am I

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Speaker 2: going to do? Should I lift it? Do I wait?

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Speaker 2: Do I sit? You know, I'm just looking for a

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Speaker 2: bit of information, I suppose, and what the actual and look,

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Speaker 2: I'm not looking for a saint answer on this is

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Speaker 2: what's going to happen. I just need some advice to say, Hey, mate,

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Speaker 2: you should start packing your shit up because we're in trouble.

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Speaker 1: Trent, it's you actually like you sound like you're worried.

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Speaker 1: I haven't heard you sound so worried ever before when

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Speaker 1: I've spoken to you before, And I can understand why.

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Speaker 1: It sounds like it's a fast evolving situation.

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Speaker 2: It is, and it's You've got to remember, Katie, I

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Speaker 2: went to sleep last night with this river at a

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Speaker 2: normal height. I've woken up this morning to phone calls

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Speaker 2: from people telling me that you need to start consider

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Speaker 2: picking your shop up, and I'm like, oh, I don't

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Speaker 2: think so yet. But then when I looked at the

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Speaker 2: gorge since this morning till now, the gorge is on

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Speaker 2: a brick wall rising straight up. Mate.

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Speaker 1: Is this because there's just been a heck of a

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Speaker 1: lot of rain or is it like is it more

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Speaker 1: of a shock because the gauge, like the radar has

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Speaker 1: been out or what's the go.

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Speaker 2: No, we just got a depression last night. It started

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Speaker 2: on top of us and it didn't stop. I learned

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Speaker 2: to wed when it was raining, and I woke up

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Speaker 2: and it was raining. It just did not stop raining

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Speaker 2: all night. And then yeah, this amount of flood water,

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Speaker 2: with the water already being high in the Gorge than

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Speaker 2: you know, previous years, because we've had such a good

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Speaker 2: wet season, it's concerning and a lot of businesses. I've

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Speaker 2: had a lot of people ring me and go what

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Speaker 2: do I do? When I said, I don't know what

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Speaker 2: to do because I'm not getting the information either exactly.

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Speaker 2: You know, if you hear the words Katie, we're evacuating

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Speaker 2: the hospital, what do you think straightaway?

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Speaker 1: Well, I think things are serious. You know, things are

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Speaker 1: really serious. And that was what the Chief Minister had

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Speaker 1: They're going to be getting those thirty four patients out

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Speaker 1: as a precautionary measure. But I mean even so, like

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Speaker 1: it's serious when you're getting the the you know the

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Speaker 1: patient's out.

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Speaker 2: Correct, And that's we're sort of just in limbo at

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Speaker 2: the moment as to what you know, so I had

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Speaker 2: a prediction like two thousand and six that got to

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Speaker 2: nineteen meters. It didn't come into my shop in two

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Speaker 2: thousand and six. But again, the rumor mill is full

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Speaker 2: noisier of twenty meters. It's twenty meters. Then we're talking

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Speaker 2: about the town being a meter or so deep in

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Speaker 2: water through the CBD.

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Speaker 1: I've we've just been on too secure NT now six

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Speaker 1: minutes ago, they said, regarding the Catherine River at Catherine Bridge.

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Speaker 1: It's currently at sixteen point eleven meters and rising with

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Speaker 1: minor flooding. The Catherine River at Catherine Bridge is expected

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Speaker 1: to exceed the moderate flood level of sixteen point five

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Speaker 1: Friday afternoon and to reach around the major flood level

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Speaker 1: of seventeen point five late Friday afternoon, similar to the

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Speaker 1: March two thousand levels. Further rises are possible, they're saying,

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Speaker 1: with four cars strain. That is the update from secure NT.

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Speaker 1: I don't know whether that gives you much further info trend.

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Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, it does, OK, but I'll give you

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Speaker 2: another side of it. Right now, they're installing the floodgates

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Speaker 2: on the southern side of town. On the east side

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Speaker 2: of town. Sorry, so protect us from a creek. So

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Speaker 2: right as we speak, they're putting gates in to stop

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Speaker 2: the town from flooding. Yeah, where are we at here

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Speaker 2: because we're evacuating the hospital and we're putting in the

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Speaker 2: floodgates of the new levee that's just been built, which

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Speaker 2: is then going to limit access to town. I don't know,

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Speaker 2: it'd just be good to see somebody come out and say, hey, guys,

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Speaker 2: this is actually what's going on. Yeah, and yeah, we're

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Speaker 2: just yeah, I mean, let us.

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Speaker 1: See what we can find, like, let us see what

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Speaker 1: further info we can get. I know, the Catherine River

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Speaker 1: Gorge Road like that, major flooding is occurring as you

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Speaker 1: would know, you know, saying they're at the Katherine River

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Speaker 1: nit Maluk Center currently sitting at seven point four one

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Speaker 1: meters and rising. You know, it sounds like you guys

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Speaker 1: are really quite worried.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, look, and we rightfully so, because we've been through

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Speaker 2: this before. You know, I have bloody ps PTSD When

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Speaker 2: I was a twelve year old kid and I woke

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Speaker 2: up and I was floating on an air mattress Katie

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Speaker 2: in town. You know, it's a real situation, and I

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Speaker 2: suppose we just need some info on like, hey, guys,

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Speaker 2: settle down and it's not going to reach this level.

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Speaker 2: But then I suppose they don't really know, so we're yes.

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Speaker 1: Sir, it is. It's a tough spot that you're in

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Speaker 1: at the moment, Trent. The Chief Minister's holding a press

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Speaker 1: conference right now. I'm being told that it is live

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Speaker 1: on Facebook, so I might let you go because I

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Speaker 1: reckon you're probably going to want to hear that as well,

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Speaker 1: to see if they provide any of that information that

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Speaker 1: you are after any of that further info and we'll

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Speaker 1: see what else we can find out. Thank you, mate,

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Speaker 1: look after yourself. We're thinking of you, and all the

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Speaker 1: people are Catherine, look after yourself, and

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Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you,