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Speaker 1: Joining me live on the line from Alice Springs, well

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Speaker 1: known territory and Tracy. Heyes, good morning, Tracy.

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Speaker 2: Good morning Katie. Tracy.

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Speaker 1: How are things going in Alice Springs this morning? What

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Speaker 1: can you see around the place?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so I think things have steady down a little. Certainly,

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Speaker 2: as the sun rose this morning, the Todd was flowing

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Speaker 2: an absolute banker. The water was roaring down at a

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Speaker 2: rapid rate of knots and on the climb quickly. It

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Speaker 2: caught I think a lot of people off guard, particularly

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Speaker 2: those that are heading to work early in the morning.

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Speaker 2: Barrett Drive was sort of completely inundated, and water was

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Speaker 2: lapping at the front of people's homes and had covered

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Speaker 2: parts of the casino car park. So just so at

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Speaker 2: that point in time, it was difficult to know how

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Speaker 2: far it was going to go. But fortunately now it

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Speaker 2: seems to have receded back inside its banks quite nicely,

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Speaker 2: and we're seeing families and kids out playing in cuddles

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Speaker 2: and acknowledging the emergency situation and the peril that some

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Speaker 2: people have found themselves in. It's otherwise a glorious feat

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Speaker 2: of mother nature to see the Todd in full force.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's quite unbelievable then as well, isn't it to

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Speaker 1: see it like that and to then see it recede?

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Speaker 1: But Tracy, you know you've spent a lot of time

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Speaker 1: in Alice Springs. Have you ever seen it? Have you

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Speaker 1: ever seen it flow like that before? Yes?

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Speaker 2: I have, I do recall or a number of decades ago.

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Speaker 2: Now it rose very rapidly, very similar to this, most

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Speaker 2: of them all at that time in andndata. So it's

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Speaker 2: a lot bigger flood than this one. It's not to

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Speaker 2: say that we're out of the woods yet. I think

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Speaker 2: all eyes will be watching closely on their catchment. Of

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Speaker 2: course that's completely sodden, so it won't take much of

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Speaker 2: a rainfall to the north of the town Katie for

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Speaker 2: the river to rise rapidly again, So all eyes will

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Speaker 2: be watching that closely today, I suspect.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Tracy, was there a massive storm last night or

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Speaker 1: has it just been like a steady onslought of rain?

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Speaker 1: What sort of you know, what's happened?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so it depends on where you were in town.

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Speaker 2: But there were reports of a couple of inches in

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Speaker 2: the old measurement, so you're sort of fifty to seventy

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Speaker 2: millimeters of rain in town, so it rain quite steadily

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Speaker 2: all night, but again, because the river had been flowing

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Speaker 2: gently over the last week or so, it didn't take much. Again,

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Speaker 2: that catchment's very wet and full, so it doesn't take

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Speaker 2: much rain to bring the water back up, and it

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Speaker 2: certainly was running at some place this morning, and quite

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Speaker 2: a dangerous situation if you know, people aren't taking care.

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Speaker 2: But from a local point of view and those have

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Speaker 2: sort of been around a long time, I think it's

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Speaker 2: just one of those wonderful spectacles. If you ever have

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Speaker 2: an opportunity to see it, it's well worth it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree. Well, Tracy Hayes, really good to speak

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Speaker 1: with you this morning. Lovely to hear your voice, and

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Speaker 1: no doubt we'll talk to you again soon.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Katie, Thank you you too,