1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:02,880 Speaker 1: Over the weekend. Had you looked at some national media 2 00:00:02,920 --> 00:00:06,200 Speaker 1: outlets over the weekend, well you'd have learned absolutely nothing 3 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:10,000 Speaker 1: about flooding in Catherine and it surrounds. Of course, that 4 00:00:10,039 --> 00:00:13,160 Speaker 1: doesn't include our local outlets who've kept people well informed. 5 00:00:13,240 --> 00:00:17,400 Speaker 1: But there's one person who's done an exceptional job at 6 00:00:17,520 --> 00:00:20,640 Speaker 1: keeping his local community up to date with what's going on. 7 00:00:21,120 --> 00:00:24,440 Speaker 1: And well he joins me on the line right now. 8 00:00:24,480 --> 00:00:27,160 Speaker 1: It is Trent to with good morning to your Trent. 9 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:28,640 Speaker 2: Morning, Katie. 10 00:00:28,680 --> 00:00:32,280 Speaker 1: Oh mate, you've had a bloody big weekend. Obviously I 11 00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:35,240 Speaker 1: spoke to you on Friday. You were really concerned about 12 00:00:35,280 --> 00:00:39,960 Speaker 1: what was going on, and unfortunately the town ended up 13 00:00:40,040 --> 00:00:41,120 Speaker 1: inundated with water. 14 00:00:42,479 --> 00:00:45,879 Speaker 2: Yeah, my gut was telling me something gaty, and we 15 00:00:45,880 --> 00:00:48,120 Speaker 2: were watching it happen, and they just didn't seem to 16 00:00:48,159 --> 00:00:52,320 Speaker 2: be enough panic in other people to see what was 17 00:00:52,400 --> 00:00:54,960 Speaker 2: unfolding in front of us. But yeah, as I spoke 18 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:57,240 Speaker 2: to you, I think it was Friday, was it? I was, yeah, 19 00:00:57,320 --> 00:00:59,600 Speaker 2: moving guns out and sandbagging in front of the shop, 20 00:00:59,640 --> 00:01:03,360 Speaker 2: and rightly so, it did exactly what we suspected it 21 00:01:03,400 --> 00:01:03,720 Speaker 2: would do. 22 00:01:04,360 --> 00:01:07,319 Speaker 1: People have been glued to your updates strength I know 23 00:01:07,360 --> 00:01:10,040 Speaker 1: that the member for Catherine paid tribute to your hard 24 00:01:10,040 --> 00:01:12,880 Speaker 1: work on the weekend and you said yesterday you'd lost 25 00:01:13,160 --> 00:01:15,880 Speaker 1: two kere loaves over the weekend. You must be naked. 26 00:01:16,880 --> 00:01:20,640 Speaker 2: I'm ready for a bike ride in a competition now, Katie, 27 00:01:20,680 --> 00:01:25,200 Speaker 2: I'm tuned up. It was really good. Me brother was 28 00:01:25,240 --> 00:01:27,640 Speaker 2: side by side with me the whole time, and we 29 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:30,800 Speaker 2: were just yeah, we were sleeping in the shop because 30 00:01:30,800 --> 00:01:32,760 Speaker 2: we couldn't get home anyway, so we were sleeping in 31 00:01:32,760 --> 00:01:35,200 Speaker 2: the shop, and we were just pretty much every couple 32 00:01:35,240 --> 00:01:37,680 Speaker 2: of hours doing a few laps around the place, and yeah, 33 00:01:37,720 --> 00:01:39,800 Speaker 2: just trying to keep people who weren't in town informed 34 00:01:39,840 --> 00:01:42,760 Speaker 2: on what was going on, because I myself would also 35 00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:45,200 Speaker 2: if I wasn't here, I'd like to know what's going on, 36 00:01:45,240 --> 00:01:46,920 Speaker 2: where the water currently is and what it's up to, 37 00:01:46,959 --> 00:01:50,680 Speaker 2: because there wasn't a whole lot of information available unless 38 00:01:50,680 --> 00:01:53,080 Speaker 2: you know how to read the grass and the data 39 00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:55,960 Speaker 2: and the tables that come from all our gauging stations, 40 00:01:56,360 --> 00:01:57,920 Speaker 2: and then you have to sort of understand what that 41 00:01:57,960 --> 00:02:02,040 Speaker 2: actually means. Yeah, it's a bit, it's a bit of there. 42 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:05,600 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Trent, tell us what's the word on the 43 00:02:05,640 --> 00:02:08,160 Speaker 1: street this morning? How are people feeling? You know, I 44 00:02:08,200 --> 00:02:10,519 Speaker 1: know there was a heap of rain last night as well. 45 00:02:11,919 --> 00:02:15,160 Speaker 2: Yeah, I put it this ocati. The sand bag is 46 00:02:15,160 --> 00:02:18,440 Speaker 2: still at the front of my shop. Yeah yeah, I'm 47 00:02:18,520 --> 00:02:20,960 Speaker 2: not in a hurry to do anything at all. I'm 48 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:24,400 Speaker 2: going to wait till at least probably Saturday at this stage, 49 00:02:24,480 --> 00:02:28,640 Speaker 2: because not in any way panicked by anything, but there 50 00:02:28,680 --> 00:02:33,800 Speaker 2: seems to be somewheather coming on Thursday, Friday possibly, and 51 00:02:33,880 --> 00:02:36,359 Speaker 2: so we're just sitting waiting. And at the moment, I mean, 52 00:02:36,360 --> 00:02:39,680 Speaker 2: the gorge has now gone from falling and it's had 53 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:42,120 Speaker 2: a rise overnight. It's back to four point nine to nine, 54 00:02:42,120 --> 00:02:44,920 Speaker 2: which means it's still above minor flood level in the gorge. 55 00:02:45,520 --> 00:02:49,079 Speaker 2: The bridge is on sixteen point one meters, which is 56 00:02:49,200 --> 00:02:53,640 Speaker 2: still an absolute mountain of water. And now we're going 57 00:02:53,720 --> 00:02:56,480 Speaker 2: to see a steady out of the Castron River at 58 00:02:56,520 --> 00:02:59,119 Speaker 2: the bridge because of that rise in the gorge last night. 59 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:03,480 Speaker 2: Stop falling soon and that next sort of you know, 60 00:03:03,560 --> 00:03:05,840 Speaker 2: just stabilization of water will come through and it will 61 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:08,960 Speaker 2: it will stop falling and it will maybe even rise 62 00:03:09,040 --> 00:03:12,120 Speaker 2: slightly this afternoon and then if we don't get any 63 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:13,880 Speaker 2: more run in the gorge and it continues to fall, 64 00:03:14,320 --> 00:03:17,400 Speaker 2: amazing Yep, it's not. Things could change quickly. 65 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:20,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, And I guess that everybody would be on really 66 00:03:20,280 --> 00:03:22,519 Speaker 1: high alert, or I know I would be. I'd be 67 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:24,639 Speaker 1: doing exactly what you are where you're thinking. No, I'm 68 00:03:24,639 --> 00:03:26,799 Speaker 1: not going to move those sand bags just yet. I'm 69 00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:28,200 Speaker 1: just going to wait and watch. 70 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:31,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, And a lot of my friends, so the Gorge 71 00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:33,680 Speaker 2: Road has just had access restored to it now so 72 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:35,800 Speaker 2: you can get out as far as Maude Creek, and 73 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:37,560 Speaker 2: so all of my friends and family and that that 74 00:03:37,640 --> 00:03:40,240 Speaker 2: live on Gorge Road who have been isolated for two 75 00:03:40,320 --> 00:03:42,760 Speaker 2: to three days have all come in this morning with 76 00:03:42,880 --> 00:03:45,680 Speaker 2: trailers and jerry cans to get fuel for their generators 77 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:48,240 Speaker 2: to refuel so that they can go back out there 78 00:03:48,320 --> 00:03:51,000 Speaker 2: in case Bullakey Creek and two Mile come back up again. 79 00:03:51,640 --> 00:03:55,320 Speaker 2: So they're all they're all preparing just for just in case. 80 00:03:55,400 --> 00:03:57,720 Speaker 2: You know, Like I said, there's no panic in anyone. 81 00:03:57,800 --> 00:04:01,160 Speaker 2: But they're all long terms, so they all know what 82 00:04:01,360 --> 00:04:02,960 Speaker 2: how to read the weather and what it's doing, and 83 00:04:02,960 --> 00:04:05,640 Speaker 2: so they're all looking at it the moment going well, 84 00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:07,960 Speaker 2: we need to just sort of prepare a game for 85 00:04:08,040 --> 00:04:09,000 Speaker 2: something else. 86 00:04:08,920 --> 00:04:12,360 Speaker 1: Mate, before I let you go, like, how is the 87 00:04:12,480 --> 00:04:16,920 Speaker 1: damage and how are people really banding together to help 88 00:04:16,960 --> 00:04:17,800 Speaker 1: one another out? 89 00:04:18,960 --> 00:04:21,920 Speaker 2: Yeah, yesterday we went to see Dave at Gremlin Electronics. 90 00:04:22,279 --> 00:04:25,080 Speaker 2: It was right in the firing line of the river 91 00:04:25,160 --> 00:04:28,760 Speaker 2: on the northern side of town, breaks its banks and 92 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:32,520 Speaker 2: travels basically around the town and then enters the river again. 93 00:04:32,560 --> 00:04:36,200 Speaker 2: And he's pretty much got two houses in that line 94 00:04:36,200 --> 00:04:39,520 Speaker 2: of fire, and so it was up to my head 95 00:04:39,760 --> 00:04:44,040 Speaker 2: in his houses. So we just went around there. We 96 00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:45,960 Speaker 2: weren't asked to do anything, no one was asked to 97 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:48,039 Speaker 2: go there. We just rocked up there. There was about 98 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:51,000 Speaker 2: fifty of us, pulled everything out of his house, salvage 99 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:53,120 Speaker 2: what could be salvaged, and then took to it with 100 00:04:53,160 --> 00:04:55,960 Speaker 2: pressure cleaners and got all the mud and stuff out. 101 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:59,560 Speaker 2: And hopefully he's getting power restored today and he'll be 102 00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:02,279 Speaker 2: able to sta drying things out, drying walls out, drawing 103 00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:05,040 Speaker 2: kitchen academy out to see what the damage is and 104 00:05:05,520 --> 00:05:06,080 Speaker 2: go from there. 105 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:10,839 Speaker 1: Well hopefully, you know, hopefully not. I don't know, Like 106 00:05:10,920 --> 00:05:13,599 Speaker 1: I really hope that you know that things do calm 107 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:16,159 Speaker 1: down over the coming days and that you guys get 108 00:05:16,200 --> 00:05:21,040 Speaker 1: some retreat reprieve. I should say, Trent, I really appreciate 109 00:05:21,080 --> 00:05:23,760 Speaker 1: all your time this morning and over the course of 110 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:26,240 Speaker 1: the weekend, I know that so many people have appreciated 111 00:05:26,279 --> 00:05:29,560 Speaker 1: what you have done as well. Mate, Before I let 112 00:05:29,560 --> 00:05:31,520 Speaker 1: you go, what's your brother's name? Is he the quiet 113 00:05:31,520 --> 00:05:32,599 Speaker 1: one in the family? Is he? 114 00:05:33,760 --> 00:05:37,159 Speaker 2: Yeah, Brandon doesn't like He doesn't like to he doesn't 115 00:05:37,200 --> 00:05:39,599 Speaker 2: like much attention. But you know, actually it's funny because 116 00:05:39,600 --> 00:05:42,679 Speaker 2: he was driving along yesterday and a massive storm wrapped 117 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:44,440 Speaker 2: in town and him and I are on the phone 118 00:05:44,880 --> 00:05:46,599 Speaker 2: and we're on different sides of the town and I 119 00:05:46,640 --> 00:05:51,719 Speaker 2: saw this lightning bolt hit on Lindy on Giles Street. Sorry, 120 00:05:51,760 --> 00:05:54,080 Speaker 2: and he was right at the tree that it hit, 121 00:05:54,400 --> 00:05:56,680 Speaker 2: and it exploded in front of him. And then he 122 00:05:56,760 --> 00:06:00,640 Speaker 2: sent me a video of him filming the tree and 123 00:06:00,720 --> 00:06:03,159 Speaker 2: every second word was an f bottom And all he 124 00:06:03,160 --> 00:06:05,200 Speaker 2: said to me was he said, I can't do this 125 00:06:05,320 --> 00:06:07,760 Speaker 2: face to talk thing that you do because my language 126 00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:09,240 Speaker 2: is as. 127 00:06:10,440 --> 00:06:12,760 Speaker 1: Oh, well, mate, I'm pleased that you're the communicator in 128 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:15,520 Speaker 1: the family. I'm the communicator in mine as well. Most 129 00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:18,800 Speaker 1: of us have the one that likes to talk, but 130 00:06:18,839 --> 00:06:21,760 Speaker 1: it sounds like Brendan prefers to be behind the behind 131 00:06:21,760 --> 00:06:22,080 Speaker 1: the count. 132 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:24,680 Speaker 2: Yeah. He was really good to have, especially you know 133 00:06:24,720 --> 00:06:26,559 Speaker 2: through those flood walls and stuff, and it was awesome 134 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:27,640 Speaker 2: to have someone else there with me. 135 00:06:27,839 --> 00:06:31,920 Speaker 1: Oh well, good on you both, and tell him thank 136 00:06:31,960 --> 00:06:34,479 Speaker 1: you as well, because I know that everybody's appreciated that. 137 00:06:34,520 --> 00:06:36,599 Speaker 1: And I tell you, what you've out done like a 138 00:06:36,600 --> 00:06:39,480 Speaker 1: lot of the national media, you know, I don't even 139 00:06:39,480 --> 00:06:42,240 Speaker 1: think we've got rated to mention on some of the 140 00:06:42,279 --> 00:06:44,240 Speaker 1: news outlets over the course of the weekend. 141 00:06:45,480 --> 00:06:47,320 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's funny how it worked out that way. And 142 00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:50,200 Speaker 2: I you know, there's no I'm not yeah for me. 143 00:06:50,279 --> 00:06:52,200 Speaker 2: I'm just I just want to slink back into the 144 00:06:52,200 --> 00:06:55,000 Speaker 2: shadows now. But I just wanted to, you know, from 145 00:06:55,040 --> 00:06:56,920 Speaker 2: my point of view sort of, I've been here long 146 00:06:57,000 --> 00:06:59,400 Speaker 2: enough to know how things work and the way the 147 00:06:59,440 --> 00:07:01,880 Speaker 2: water flows. So it's good to just give people a 148 00:07:02,320 --> 00:07:05,159 Speaker 2: you know, not a blow in report, and actual person 149 00:07:05,200 --> 00:07:06,920 Speaker 2: that can sort of see it happening and knows what 150 00:07:06,960 --> 00:07:08,560 Speaker 2: the next step might be thought on. 151 00:07:08,720 --> 00:07:10,360 Speaker 1: And Mate, that's what we love about you. You're not 152 00:07:10,440 --> 00:07:12,960 Speaker 1: there seeking attention. You're doing it just out of the 153 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:15,360 Speaker 1: goodness of your heart to try and help your fellow 154 00:07:15,440 --> 00:07:17,840 Speaker 1: community members. I think that's a great thing to do. 155 00:07:17,960 --> 00:07:20,040 Speaker 1: So a big thanks to you, Trent, and to your 156 00:07:20,040 --> 00:07:23,040 Speaker 1: brother Brendan, and we'll talk to you again very soon. 157 00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:25,120 Speaker 2: All good, Just wore I go. There are a lot 158 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:27,920 Speaker 2: of other people too, you know, Ben Hockey and doing 159 00:07:27,920 --> 00:07:29,480 Speaker 2: a hold and there's a lot of people doing a 160 00:07:29,480 --> 00:07:31,720 Speaker 2: lot of work in this town. And yeah, it's a 161 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:34,520 Speaker 2: huge community effort coming together. A lot of people organizing 162 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:35,840 Speaker 2: clean up crews and that as well. 163 00:07:35,960 --> 00:07:36,840 Speaker 1: So good order. 164 00:07:37,640 --> 00:07:39,800 Speaker 2: Yeah, unfortunately I just get a bit more airtime, but 165 00:07:39,840 --> 00:07:41,880 Speaker 2: those guys are working hard in the background as well. 166 00:07:42,160 --> 00:07:44,840 Speaker 1: Trent. We love your work mate, Thank you, thanks for 167 00:07:44,880 --> 00:07:46,600 Speaker 1: coming on. Always appreciate it.