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Speaker 1: We have to touch on this, guys.

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Speaker 2: Literally, the most damaging floods in decades continue to expand

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Speaker 2: all up and down the New South Wales coast, from

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Speaker 2: all the way down from Tweetheads all the way down

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Speaker 2: to the Victorian border. Ten million Aussies in every mainland

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Speaker 2: state and territory except Western Australia are currently subject to

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Speaker 2: a weather warning. That's an area similar to the size

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Speaker 2: of Alaska. That's massive. Now, how many people are currently

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Speaker 2: getting affected by this storm? Right now we're looking at

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Speaker 2: two hundred miles of rain down in Victoria as well.

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Speaker 2: I know that they are looking at evacuation orders all

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Speaker 2: throughout New South Wales. Right now, we're going to cross

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Speaker 2: to Hailey Francis from Channel iin News, who's currently watching

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Speaker 2: evacuation boats arrive. Hailey, can you just talk to us

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Speaker 2: a little bit about where you are and what the

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Speaker 2: feel is like down there?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, Well, I'm actually standing here at Weisman's Ferry golf course,

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Speaker 3: but you can't actually see the green. It really just

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Speaker 3: looks like a lake. So I'm watching evacuation boats come

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Speaker 3: in now. This is off the back of just one

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Speaker 3: of many evacuation orders along this Hawksbury river here that

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Speaker 3: we're just seeing swell by the meter over the past

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Speaker 3: few days. We really for the worst of that today,

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Speaker 3: and essentially people have that decision to make as to whether,

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Speaker 3: you know, that they stay and they hope that the

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Speaker 3: waters just don't come too high, or they pass all

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Speaker 3: their belongings now and they make the most of the

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Speaker 3: sef being there with their resources. They jump in the

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Speaker 3: boats and then they deliver them here to the evacuation center,

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Speaker 3: which is the Lawn Bowls Club across the road. It's

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Speaker 3: green is also completely submerged. So that's the situation we're

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Speaker 3: looking at here.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, there's a percentage. How many people are you know,

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Speaker 4: staying compared to those that are choosing to evacuate and

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Speaker 4: getting out of there.

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Speaker 3: It's really hard to put a percentage on it, but

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Speaker 3: a good question do better look, that's the thing to

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Speaker 3: be honest. I've actually been really surprised with how everyone

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Speaker 3: is today. These people that live along here, they live

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Speaker 3: on the edge of a river. They love their views.

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Speaker 3: They've seen some of them that have been here for

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Speaker 3: twenty thirty odd years have seen floods like this. Some

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Speaker 3: say it was similar to the ones in nineteen seventies,

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Speaker 3: some in the nineteen nineties, but they're not all overly concerned.

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Speaker 3: The ones that are new to the area are the

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Speaker 3: ones that are getting out. The other ones that have

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Speaker 3: been here longer happiness today exactly. Some I mean one

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Speaker 3: guy who's been here I spoke to this morning over

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Speaker 3: a decade and he actually turned up in his pinny

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Speaker 3: just to come into town to get some supplies. I

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Speaker 3: mean authorities. Authority spoke to him and explained to him that,

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Speaker 3: you know, the dangers of going out on this river

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Speaker 3: because there is quite a warrant to it. It's certainly

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Speaker 3: glowing like it never has before. They obviously do what

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Speaker 3: they can and warn him of the dangers, but he said,

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Speaker 3: you know, I know this. He's actually a ferry operator, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: so it's different.

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Speaker 2: So I was trying to sort of figure this out

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Speaker 2: in my head before, because obviously, you know, when there's

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Speaker 2: fires going on, I feel like there's a lot of panic.

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Speaker 2: They obviously moved very very quickly. Is the is the vibe?

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Speaker 2: I just have never been in a severe flood situation before.

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Speaker 2: I know people up in Queensland obviously most recently experienced

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Speaker 2: similar things. Is there is there more time. Is that

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Speaker 2: is there less panic amongst people or is it sort

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Speaker 2: of caught people off guard. I'm not sure if you

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Speaker 2: covered the fires as well, what's what's what's the difference.

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Speaker 3: I think it's it's actually so much more calm than

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Speaker 3: you would think. I mean, this is I'm baking this

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Speaker 3: off where I've been here today, and it's not as

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Speaker 3: if you can actually see the flood levels rising in

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Speaker 3: front of you. But it's more so if you take

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Speaker 3: a photo and then you compare that just three or

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Speaker 3: four hours later, you can see it up. Sure, but

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Speaker 3: I imagine the panic would more so be The panic

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Speaker 3: would also be in the middle of the night, when

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Speaker 3: you know, the SEF start knocking on people's doors and

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Speaker 3: tell them they have to pack up. Now, those are

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Speaker 3: the sort of things that I imagine you would really see

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Speaker 3: the panic. But especially in communities life this as well,

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Speaker 3: where everything is based on the river system, I think

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Speaker 3: they're just a little more prepared. Yeah, okay, I always

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Speaker 3: know the risk.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So there's all sorts of people I can see

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Speaker 2: online in canoes and kayaks. As you said, Tinny's there.

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Speaker 2: I remember when the Queensland floods are going on, there

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Speaker 2: are wild shots of sharks and other sorts.

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Speaker 1: Of things that were swimming up the river systems.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, my uncles reckon he saw a crocodile. He was

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Speaker 4: taking a few photos because his home got flooded. Yeah, right,

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Speaker 4: and he was wading through wasteep water and he reckons

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Speaker 4: the crocodile when twenty meters in.

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Speaker 1: Front of him, just in these floods. No no, no, no, no, last.

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Speaker 4: Year luck perfect.

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Speaker 2: Well yeah, yeah, So, Haley, what's the most intense thing

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Speaker 2: that you've seen covering this right now?

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Speaker 3: To be honest, the thing that really shits me is

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Speaker 3: when you start saying the the tops of houses, houses

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Speaker 3: that have just been picked up. There's also been It's

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Speaker 3: a difficult one because we obviously haven't been might personally

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Speaker 3: haven't been out on the river. But I was speaking

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Speaker 3: to that guy who was out in the tinney and

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Speaker 3: I said, you know, a sort of things do you

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Speaker 3: seeing float down there? And he said, everything from caravans,

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Speaker 3: people sheds, to trampolines, just a bunch of stuff. And

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Speaker 3: even there's some amazing drone footage online that's going quite

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Speaker 3: viral and sort of creating a bit of a hero

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Speaker 3: among the community here. There was a shipping container that

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Speaker 3: was seen late last night and that was flying down

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Speaker 3: this river. Someone had actually been flying their drone up

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Speaker 3: just to get shots of what was happening. They saw

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Speaker 3: that the shipping container was headed for some luxury houseboats.

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Speaker 3: They called the business owner of that business and actually

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Speaker 3: jumped in his pinny and he used it to actually

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Speaker 3: push the shipping container out of the way and bear

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 3: Wow, it's those sort of things. The people are just

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Speaker 3: sort of, you know, just feeling with what's in front

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Speaker 3: of them, and you know, putting themselves in danger.

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Speaker 2: Try and save this stuff. Sounds like really phenomenal. Conditions

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Speaker 2: are phenomenal in all the wrong senses of the word.

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Speaker 2: Really like really hard to fully understand. Thanks so much

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Speaker 2: for painting an amazing picture, Haley. I won't ask you

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Speaker 2: to give me as a fraction how high the water's

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Speaker 2: risen ever since the time since you've been there.

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Speaker 1: Tomorrow, though, we're going.

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Speaker 4: To call back pop quick absolutely fractions percentages.

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Speaker 3: I'm not measuring, Hailey.

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Speaker 2: Thanks so much for joining us. Haley Francis there from

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Speaker 2: Channel nine. She is down on the Hawksbury River just

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Speaker 2: covering what is just an emerging story as I said.

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Speaker 2: Ten million Australians currently under a severe weather warning from

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Speaker 2: the tip to the toe of New South Wales.

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Speaker 1: That is wild stuff. Keep watching that, guys.

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Speaker 2: I hope everyone's staying safe and staying touch of their

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Speaker 2: relatives there