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<v Speaker 1>Christ Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell show podcast.

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<v Speaker 2>What Blew Away? Samantha, good morning, good morning?

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<v Speaker 1>Why are you Christian?

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<v Speaker 2>Good month? I had a great weekends actually called in the show,

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<v Speaker 2>so what blew Away?

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<v Speaker 1>Well, I'm in Geelong and I got a call from

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<v Speaker 1>the Sees saying that there was a trampoline ended up

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<v Speaker 1>in my backyard from my neighbor.

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<v Speaker 2>Up the road, blowing down the road.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it ended up in my backyard. And all I

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<v Speaker 1>said was to the Sees guy, not my dogs. But

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<v Speaker 1>I wasn't worried about the dogs. First thing I said,

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<v Speaker 1>is it jumpable? Can I come home and jump on it?

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<v Speaker 1>But yeah, I lost my barbecue smashed. It's gone up

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<v Speaker 1>the side of the house and my dog kennels went

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<v Speaker 1>flying and my dogs were huffing and puffing.

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<v Speaker 2>When I got cudda, this just sounds like the Wizard

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<v Speaker 2>of Oce. What do you mean the dog kennel flew

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<v Speaker 2>up in the air.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, they flew, They chew plastic dog kennels and they

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<v Speaker 1>ended up down near the clothes line. So you imagine

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<v Speaker 1>if they were in there. I would not like to

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<v Speaker 1>think if they were in there when that happened.

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<v Speaker 2>I've never heard if not. Dogs sort of been blown

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<v Speaker 2>up in the air and sort of down the road,

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<v Speaker 2>tumbling along with the trampoline, dogs in their kennels.

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<v Speaker 3>So that's sad.

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<v Speaker 1>That's terrible, isn't it?

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<v Speaker 4>It is?

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<v Speaker 2>And so how many doors away? Was the was the

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<v Speaker 2>trampoline from the top end of the street?

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<v Speaker 1>All houses down?

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<v Speaker 2>Bloody? I was strong with the winds. Where was this? Then?

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<v Speaker 2>That's chaos?

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<v Speaker 1>It was pretty bad. I lost I've lost a few

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<v Speaker 1>tiles and different things. And the guttering is a bit mangled,

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<v Speaker 1>but that's all right.

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<v Speaker 3>It can be fixed.

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<v Speaker 2>Samantha, thank you very much. You kill me. I have

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<v Speaker 2>a good day.

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<v Speaker 1>Thank you to kristin Bay, Maria coom Oning gang.

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<v Speaker 2>How are you where, Maria? What blew away?

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<v Speaker 5>My son?

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<v Speaker 6>When he went to school. We sent him to a

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<v Speaker 6>private school and part of the uniform was a ridiculously

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<v Speaker 6>expensive hat they had to wear. And about three weeks

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<v Speaker 6>into his first term, he was standing on the train

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<v Speaker 6>station and the wind caught the hat and off it

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<v Speaker 6>went and it was rolling down the station and he

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<v Speaker 6>went after it, and pretty similar to you in your cabana,

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<v Speaker 6>he went rugby diving just as it was about to

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<v Speaker 6>go off the station onto the tracks. Managed to catch it,

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<v Speaker 6>but came home with extremely badly Gray's knees and elbows.

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<v Speaker 6>But he said, I didn't lose my hat.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh, you can't lose the hat because no hat, no

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<v Speaker 2>play shed all lu stream wind.

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<v Speaker 6>Yeah, it wasn't that's not a hat, Jack. It was

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<v Speaker 6>a hat that they had to wear going to and

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<v Speaker 6>from school. They didn't have to wear it when they

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<v Speaker 6>were outside during during the day.

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<v Speaker 5>That.

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<v Speaker 6>Oh, it was ridiculous. They used to refer to it

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<v Speaker 6>as the summer of Kubra and it looked like all

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<v Speaker 6>al boater hat.

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<v Speaker 3>How have I never seen these students work in the street?

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<v Speaker 6>He was on the other side of town, Jack, you

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<v Speaker 6>lived on.

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<v Speaker 2>I think they'd go to school under the cover of darkness.

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<v Speaker 6>You'd know which school I was talking about, and every

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<v Speaker 6>godbody who goes there knows about it as well.

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<v Speaker 2>They're still wearing the felt the coobra's today, are they No?

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<v Speaker 6>I think they faced them out in the last couple

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<v Speaker 6>of years. That this was about ten years ago.

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<v Speaker 2>Amazing scenes, Maria, very funny story. Thanksgiving us to call mete.

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<v Speaker 2>This is the Christian O'Connell Show podcast, asking you right now?

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<v Speaker 2>What blew away? Good morning, Adam at work already, Christian.

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<v Speaker 2>One of my early memories is the day we moved

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<v Speaker 2>to Melbourne from Regional VIC. I was about five years old.

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<v Speaker 2>To cheer me up about leaving and moving to the

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<v Speaker 2>big Smoke, my parents had got me a yellow balloon.

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<v Speaker 2>We're about to get in the car and leave forever.

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<v Speaker 2>The balloon blew out my hands and took off down

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<v Speaker 2>the driveway my feckless father. This is still obviously burns.

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<v Speaker 2>This happened in nineteen seventy eight, my feckless father, which

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<v Speaker 2>is a pucke. One day, my feckless father and uncle

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<v Speaker 2>both gave half hearted chase. This still hurts all the

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<v Speaker 2>way back in nineteen seventy eight, but an even greater

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<v Speaker 2>gust of wind launched it further into the air and

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<v Speaker 2>out from the driveway moments later, Christian. It was in

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<v Speaker 2>the stratosphere. All during the two hour drive to our

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<v Speaker 2>new home, my uncle would randomly point at non specific

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<v Speaker 2>points in the sky and yell, there's your balloon. Each

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<v Speaker 2>time I'd strained to look up and not see anything.

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<v Speaker 2>Each time my uncle would tell me I just missed it.

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<v Speaker 2>It's gone behind a cloud, before pointing again at some

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<v Speaker 2>nonspecific cloud. I'm not saying that was traumatized or anything,

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<v Speaker 2>but I'm forty seven now and I'm still thinking about

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<v Speaker 2>that yellow balloon. Adamat bestless, restless father? All right? What

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<v Speaker 2>blew away? Phil? Good morning, morning guys.

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<v Speaker 3>How are we?

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah? We're good. Feel we'll haping a great weekend? What

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<v Speaker 2>blew away? Phil?

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<v Speaker 4>So?

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<v Speaker 6>I was down at the beach at Rosebud. My umbrella

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<v Speaker 6>blew away and went about twenty meters and a couple

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<v Speaker 6>of lovely ladies grabbed it, pully, and as they were

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<v Speaker 6>wrangling mine, there's blue.

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<v Speaker 1>Lots blow away.

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<v Speaker 4>So I gave chase for theirs and.

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<v Speaker 1>Then we're about two hundred meters sprinting bards try and

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<v Speaker 1>get it back to this lovely group ladies.

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<v Speaker 6>Who are somebody?

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<v Speaker 2>What a scene down the beach to be watching that.

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<v Speaker 2>It's just an innocent bystander, not involved in the frack arm.

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<v Speaker 6>Will I spent running after attempts?

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<v Speaker 4>What happened?

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<v Speaker 2>It's hard giving chase anything in the sand. Brutal, It's brutal.

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<v Speaker 2>It is fell, thank you very much, and cool mate,

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<v Speaker 2>that's got a leanne here. Good morning Liam, good morning, An.

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<v Speaker 2>What blew away? Ah?

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<v Speaker 4>Well, we were towing home our canravan on the freeway

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<v Speaker 4>at one hundred kilometers and the roof of the cantervan

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<v Speaker 4>blew off. All the canvas around the side that connects

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<v Speaker 4>to the bottom blew off, and everything inside the canvravan

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<v Speaker 4>that wasn't nailed down also blew backwards, causing carnage all

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<v Speaker 4>over the road and massive traffic jams and a great

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<v Speaker 4>big mess.

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<v Speaker 2>Ly So basically after a while you're just knowing, well,

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<v Speaker 2>you're just having some wheels on you basically the act.

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<v Speaker 6>Yes, it was like a trailer just been stripped away.

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<v Speaker 1>Yep.

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<v Speaker 2>So what it happened was there a window open or

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<v Speaker 2>something that let the air in and under the ceiling.

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<v Speaker 5>No, no where you hooked it in at the front.

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<v Speaker 5>The wind had caught that somehow. It was an old

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<v Speaker 5>camp van and it started to lift it. And then

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<v Speaker 5>being at one hundred kilometers, the wind just lifted the

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<v Speaker 5>roof and it just ripped everything off and flew everything

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<v Speaker 5>flying everywhere, and.

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<v Speaker 2>Then you caused a massive, a massive traffic jam.

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<v Speaker 4>Well car's just had to pull over everywhere trying to

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<v Speaker 4>avoid the mattresses and everything that were flying out, So.

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<v Speaker 2>Did you start to run around and get kick nacked?

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, well we pulled over, and friends of ours that

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<v Speaker 4>were following pulled over, and other people that had pulled over.

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<v Speaker 6>We were all trying to clear it all off the road.

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<v Speaker 6>And yeah, what.

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<v Speaker 2>Absolute nightmare, Leanne. Incredible story though, thanks for thank you

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<v Speaker 2>tomorrow on the show. We should just find out to

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<v Speaker 2>speak a bit. Why did you cause a massive traffic

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<v Speaker 2>jam seven years ago?

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<v Speaker 3>On?

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<v Speaker 2>People hate you, they don't care for your backstory. Well,

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<v Speaker 2>while the car's broken down, if you've caused a traffic jam,

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<v Speaker 2>you want to hide in that car? We went to

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<v Speaker 2>be towed away? Have we got here? Kelly? Good morning, Kelly?

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<v Speaker 3>Can i Christian? How are you?

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<v Speaker 2>I'm good Kelly. What what got blown away?

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<v Speaker 3>Well? We were sitting at a cafe in Regional Victoria,

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<v Speaker 3>a new little shop that just opened, and my husband

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<v Speaker 3>I thought we'd go and check it out. I'm sitting

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<v Speaker 3>there having some breakfast and my husband went inside to

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<v Speaker 3>get maybe some salt pepper, and I'm sitting there eating

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<v Speaker 3>my lovely breakfast when all of a sudden, the gust

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<v Speaker 3>of wind came along and blew the massive cafe umbrella

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<v Speaker 3>over the top of the cafe into the car park

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<v Speaker 3>and onto our car, a.

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<v Speaker 2>Perfect landing, and the Chianges did not give it ten

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<v Speaker 2>out of ten. Oh my god, Kelly, So what happened?

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<v Speaker 2>Did it set off or smashing the nod?

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<v Speaker 3>It did take off a bit of duco and we'd

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<v Speaker 3>only recently sort of got the car, and I was

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<v Speaker 3>just sitting there though too. I sat there and I

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<v Speaker 3>didn't couldn't believe that the wind had taken the umbrella,

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<v Speaker 3>so I just kept eating my breakfast like nothing had happened.

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<v Speaker 3>And my husband walks out and I'm just there, no umbrella.

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<v Speaker 5>And.

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<v Speaker 2>You see the brolly take off and land on your.

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<v Speaker 3>Own above me. It was above me, Chrystal. You know,

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<v Speaker 3>I was sitting under this huge umbrella which she would

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<v Speaker 3>have thought augusta wind wouldn't be able to lift it

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<v Speaker 3>because it should be weighted down, and of course it

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<v Speaker 3>obviously wasn't weighted down correctly, and it sort of went

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<v Speaker 3>over the top of the cafe, so I couldn't really

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<v Speaker 3>see where it went until my husband came out sees

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<v Speaker 3>me sitting there sort of umbrella naked now and there

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<v Speaker 3>we go and check the car and of course it's

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<v Speaker 3>hit the car. It's gone up the street like it

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<v Speaker 3>really took off, and our car has been damaged. And

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<v Speaker 3>of course the cafe owners tried to get out of

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<v Speaker 3>playing the insurance, saying it was an act of God,

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<v Speaker 3>but saying, for you know, we got covered by insurance.

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<v Speaker 3>We got our car fixed.

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<v Speaker 2>Because you get a free breakfast.

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<v Speaker 3>No we didn't go back. No no, no free breakfast,

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<v Speaker 3>and we decided maybe not to go back in the

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<v Speaker 3>recommend a cafe twenty one in case you know, similar

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<v Speaker 3>acts of God may have occurred.

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<v Speaker 2>Who knows, I opened a cafe called acts of God's

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<v Speaker 2>part of the Third of Eating. You don't know what

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<v Speaker 2>might happen to tornadoes. Kelly, thank you very much, she

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<v Speaker 2>called my great story, no worries.

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<v Speaker 3>Thanks. Christian.

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