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Speaker 1: This morning.

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Speaker 2: We've actually received a number of messages calls from people

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Speaker 2: out at Darwin River. They're pretty frustrated and pretty upset,

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Speaker 2: really feeling as though they've been forgotten throughout all of this,

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Speaker 2: despite the fact that they are in a really difficult

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Speaker 2: really pretty bad by the sounds of things. Now, Tom

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Speaker 3: Get a Tom Good, Okadi, how are you not bad? Mate?

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Speaker 1: How are you guys going at the moment?

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Speaker 3: Oh? You know, we're surviving pretty bit.

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Speaker 1: Of damage by the sounds of it, though.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, there's been a stressful couple of days, you

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Speaker 2: You know, in terms of you know, how this storm

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Speaker 2: sort of struck and all this rain arrive. Was there

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Speaker 2: any kind of warning for you guys?

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Speaker 3: None whatsoever? And that's what frustrates me somewhat. I mean,

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Speaker 3: the Minister was on the radio this morning saying that

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Speaker 3: the pumps the damn shut down at four point thirty

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Speaker 3: when they got inundated. Why didn't they put two and

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Speaker 3: to hit downstream. We need to put a message out

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Speaker 3: to people.

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Speaker 2: Well, this is the thing, and you know, people do

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Speaker 2: need to be informed of what is going on. So essentially,

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Speaker 2: when those pumps were flooded, you know, I'm assuming that

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Speaker 2: you guys, you were starting to see a heck of

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Speaker 2: a lot of water out there.

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Speaker 3: By incredible, incredible. We basically only had time to grab

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Speaker 3: some personal effects, basic personal effects and the pets and

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Speaker 3: then get out. Essentially, we've got elderly neighbors. We haven't

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Speaker 3: been able to get back into check on them, see

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Speaker 3: if they're okay yet I know of and again no warning.

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Speaker 3: I know a friend of mine he actually walked through

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Speaker 3: you know, like chest and neck deep water to get

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Speaker 3: And he actually walked him out.

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Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, Tom, there's a lot for me to

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Speaker 2: unpack there. First off, your elderly neighbors. So does anyone

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Speaker 3: Wow? I don't know. We haven't been in to see them.

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Speaker 1: Oh no.

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Speaker 2: And in terms of like how high would the water

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Speaker 3: Oh at their place? Be hard to say. I mean,

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Speaker 3: we had I think it was well the time we

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Speaker 3: So and they're closer to the river than what we are.

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Speaker 2: Oh my goodness. So we literally we do not know

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Speaker 2: at this point whether they're all right.

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Speaker 3: No, no, no, I mean and like I said, we

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Speaker 3: get you completely submerged. Like a friend of mine at

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Speaker 3: the radio, he's had between one and a half and

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Speaker 3: last night, he was still standing in knee deep water.

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Speaker 2: Oh mate, I'm really sorry to hear that this has

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Speaker 2: we weren't talking about it on the show yesterday as well.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the other a disappointing thing, Cardie, like there wasn't

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Speaker 3: yesterday yesterday morning and said, yeah, this is what's happened.

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Speaker 3: We're all going to need assistance. And I was told

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Speaker 3: to ring my local politician and follow the Chief Minister's

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Speaker 3: Facebook page for updates.

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Speaker 2: Well, that is not what you should have been told

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Speaker 2: that's for bloody sure. You know, really there should have

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Speaker 2: been somebody sent out there to go and check on

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Speaker 1: First off, lock did you.

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Speaker 2: Have emergency services or has anyone been out there?

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Speaker 3: No? No. And the funny thing is, and I've got

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Speaker 3: to mention this because this is the barrel and brother

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Speaker 3: trying to fix to get generators into the dam. The

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Speaker 3: years for that to be upgraded because it's our shortest

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Speaker 3: only that the other side of the bar of Milone

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Speaker 1: Right, Well, bloody hell they're going to have to fix

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Speaker 1: it now, aren't they. Tom.

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Speaker 3: That's that's that's the funny thing about it. Like we're

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Speaker 3: the government just refused to acknowledge it. Now we're going

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Speaker 3: enough to have it. Oh mate, Even now, even now,

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Speaker 3: there's been no messages of accommodation assistance like emergency accommodation

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Speaker 3: for people that have got nowhere to go.

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Speaker 2: So have you had any like since we've spoken about

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Speaker 3: I've been informed by Kathleen that, Yeah, the Chief Minister's

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Speaker 3: Office has requested more.

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Speaker 1: Fine, Okay, well excellent, all right, Well pleased.

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Speaker 3: At least I'm not the only one just trying to

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Speaker 3: be the voice for everyone else that's that's in this predicament.

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Speaker 3: So could everyone's distraught, like there's no one's been getting

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and so there's fourteen homes impacted?

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Speaker 1: Is that right?

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Speaker 3: I would say that it'd be a minimum. Yeah, if

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Speaker 3: you you did a bit of digging, there'd be more.

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Speaker 3: Could it also be very creep would have been affected

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Speaker 3: as well by springs? Yep.

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Speaker 1: No, I've got a friend out there who definitely has been.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, because obviously, you know, just the water's just backing up.

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Speaker 3: Guaranteed to be people there that have been affected as well. Mate.

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Speaker 2: We have passed your number on now to the Chief

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Speaker 2: Minister's Office so that hopefully you know, all of you

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Speaker 2: told that they are going to that they're putting in

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Speaker 2: the paper to make sure that things get sorted today,

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Speaker 2: so that I don't know exactly what that means, but

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Speaker 2: I hope it means that there's some kind of financial

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Speaker 2: assistance for you guys and some further assistance. But Tom,

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Speaker 2: what do you guys need? What do you need today? Asap?

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Speaker 3: Well? Ask personally, We're okay, we've got a friend's place

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Speaker 3: to go to, but realistically there needs to be a

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Speaker 3: message sent out to the community to go Do you

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Speaker 3: have somewhere to stay? Do you need emergency accommodation? Do

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Speaker 3: you need food? Do you need water? What do we

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Like I mean that seems to me like common sense.

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Speaker 2: We spoke to the incident controller a little bit earlier

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Speaker 2: this morning. I certainly asked about Darwin River. I hope

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Speaker 1: You know, like that people start acting straight away.

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Speaker 3: Well, I hope, yeah, And that's that's pretty much why

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Speaker 3: I contacted you, because the entire community is hurting. Like

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Speaker 3: everyone that I've that I've spoke to that I've rung,

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Speaker 3: they're in the same boat as us. That no warning,

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Speaker 3: no assistance, no help, They just lost.

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Speaker 2: Tommy, is that little family all right that your other

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Speaker 2: neighbor went through, well, I would imagine croc infested waters.

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Speaker 2: To go and help them. Are they all right?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? I believe they got out, but I don't know

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Speaker 2: Oh mate, I'm really worried about your elderly neighbors as well,

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Speaker 2: And I just think someone has got to get out

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Speaker 2: and go and check that they're all right. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Well, we're going to try and get back today, like

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Speaker 3: get back in there. So yeah, hopefully we should be

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Speaker 1: Can you yeah, can you keep us in?

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Speaker 2: Can we get you back on tomorrow to find out

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Speaker 2: as you get out there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah too, tom I'm.

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Speaker 2: Really sorry that you guys, to all your neighbors, that

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Speaker 2: really sorry for you guys, and I know that everybody

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, the thing is, Codie, I mean, you know,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's not right.

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Speaker 3: It's just like we're second class citizens to you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that is not right. It's not right at all.

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Speaker 2: And there Yeah, there needs to be a look at

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Speaker 2: how and why you guys have not been sort of

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Speaker 2: the same way.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, I mean we'll all pull together, you will

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Speaker 3: so much, you know. It is it is quite heartwarming

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Speaker 2: That makes well that's because I bet they're a bloody

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it does make you smile. But we can

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Speaker 3: only do so much. Make some point we're going to

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Speaker 2: Is there anything that you guys sort of need immediately?

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Speaker 2: Because I know I will start getting messages pretty well

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Speaker 2: this point in time? What is it that you might

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Speaker 2: need that if people are out there and in a

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Speaker 2: they might be able to do.

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Speaker 3: I think once it comes down to it, once waters

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Speaker 3: receeed and we're able to get back in, I think

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Speaker 3: residents are going to need assistance to clean. You know,

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Speaker 3: we've got to get all the dead furniture and you know,

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Speaker 3: all the rotten food and start cleaning. That's going to

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Speaker 3: be the big thing. He's getting hands on to that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, well, let's stay in contact. We'll try

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Speaker 2: and catch up with you tomorrow if that suits you.

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Speaker 2: If you're able to get out there again the SAVO

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Speaker 2: and get a bit of an update, and then we

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Speaker 2: ball rolling for whenever it's possible for you guys to

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Speaker 2: get inside your houses.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that'd be much appreciated.

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Speaker 1: Tom.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, thanks so much for getting in contact with

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Speaker 2: me this morning and making the whole of the Northern Territory.

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Speaker 1: Aware of what's going on.

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Speaker 3: No, thank you Katie anytime.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. We'll talk to you tomorrow