1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:03,840 Speaker 1: Jersey and Amanda jam Nason. 2 00:00:03,560 --> 00:00:09,440 Speaker 2: Tyre was inundated with unprecedented amounts of water. Last week 3 00:00:09,480 --> 00:00:12,160 Speaker 2: we caught up with Paul Stanley, not from Kiss, but 4 00:00:12,320 --> 00:00:14,480 Speaker 2: Paul Stanley who I used to work with on the 5 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:17,880 Speaker 2: radio at Musclebrook and he lives in Tari. His house 6 00:00:18,079 --> 00:00:20,640 Speaker 2: went underwater, went underwater in twenty twenty two, and now 7 00:00:20,640 --> 00:00:21,920 Speaker 2: it's gone underwater again. 8 00:00:22,079 --> 00:00:25,800 Speaker 3: Hello Paul, Oh, hello Jones and you Good morning Amanda. 9 00:00:26,079 --> 00:00:29,080 Speaker 1: Hi Paul. We hear that from today seventy a Stralian 10 00:00:29,080 --> 00:00:31,440 Speaker 1: Defense Force personnel is going to be deployed to the 11 00:00:31,440 --> 00:00:33,879 Speaker 1: area to help clear the debris, ripe and roads, etc. 12 00:00:34,440 --> 00:00:36,479 Speaker 1: Where do you even start with a cleanup? What's the 13 00:00:36,560 --> 00:00:37,560 Speaker 1: state of your place? 14 00:00:37,760 --> 00:00:39,760 Speaker 3: Do you get out of street? What do you do? 15 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:45,040 Speaker 3: I'm so glad they're coming, Honestly, we need hands on deck, 16 00:00:45,080 --> 00:00:47,040 Speaker 3: you know. And I've been hanging for those guys. They 17 00:00:47,080 --> 00:00:50,120 Speaker 3: came last time in twenty one, in March twenty one 18 00:00:50,720 --> 00:00:53,559 Speaker 3: and are incredible. They had massive, big tit trucks and 19 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:55,880 Speaker 3: diggers and whatever else is to grab all the stuff. 20 00:00:55,920 --> 00:00:59,200 Speaker 3: But at the moment my place was about half a 21 00:00:59,240 --> 00:01:01,760 Speaker 3: meter under. It didn't go all the way through, so 22 00:01:01,920 --> 00:01:05,080 Speaker 3: some stuff was saved, but a lot of stuff is 23 00:01:05,280 --> 00:01:08,480 Speaker 3: just gone. It's incredible the amount of people that have 24 00:01:08,560 --> 00:01:12,040 Speaker 3: suffered worse than I have. My house is quite damaged, 25 00:01:12,080 --> 00:01:13,679 Speaker 3: so I won't be living in it for a while 26 00:01:14,560 --> 00:01:17,120 Speaker 3: and living around with family at the moment and in 27 00:01:17,240 --> 00:01:19,960 Speaker 3: a van. So I'm lucky I have a van. 28 00:01:20,240 --> 00:01:24,240 Speaker 1: But is it what's the filter? 29 00:01:24,760 --> 00:01:28,759 Speaker 3: Mud? It's logs, it's mud, it's the silt. Is incredible? 30 00:01:29,440 --> 00:01:33,240 Speaker 3: Road based from tracks is I'm on a property right 31 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:38,520 Speaker 3: near the river's it's incredible. The cartage on whatever the 32 00:01:38,560 --> 00:01:40,960 Speaker 3: word is, it's hard to describe, but there's so many 33 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:44,000 Speaker 3: people that lived a couple of kilometers away from the 34 00:01:44,080 --> 00:01:48,120 Speaker 3: river that were inundated with flood water that are homeless. 35 00:01:48,160 --> 00:01:51,040 Speaker 3: There's so much homelessnes. There's so much debris that people 36 00:01:51,040 --> 00:01:53,360 Speaker 3: are pulling out of their houses. You have to clean 37 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:56,960 Speaker 3: your house pretty well straight away. We had sixty volunteers. 38 00:01:56,960 --> 00:01:58,600 Speaker 3: When we could get in, we had to get in. 39 00:01:58,880 --> 00:02:01,320 Speaker 3: We couldn't get in until Saturday. We had big blog 40 00:02:01,440 --> 00:02:04,160 Speaker 3: movers moving shit out of the way. Sorry about that, 41 00:02:05,320 --> 00:02:07,000 Speaker 3: so we can get into the track. Then we had 42 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:10,359 Speaker 3: people trying to make our track. Volunteers were just pulling 43 00:02:10,360 --> 00:02:12,600 Speaker 3: stuff out of my house, out of another house, out 44 00:02:12,639 --> 00:02:16,079 Speaker 3: of another house, cleaning all the mud out. We had 45 00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:19,560 Speaker 3: water tankers with petrol pumps to be able to hose the. 46 00:02:19,560 --> 00:02:24,400 Speaker 1: Houses outside of your house out all the electrical stuff. 47 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:28,680 Speaker 3: Mine was okay, a lot of it's gone. I lost 48 00:02:28,720 --> 00:02:32,320 Speaker 3: my fridge, you know, because it was sort of underneath 49 00:02:32,320 --> 00:02:35,000 Speaker 3: the water where the motor and stuff is. But a 50 00:02:35,040 --> 00:02:38,640 Speaker 3: lot of people have they got everything, absolutely everything They've 51 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:41,640 Speaker 3: swum out of the flood walls. In a lot of 52 00:02:41,680 --> 00:02:43,760 Speaker 3: cases have been rescued. I've seen a lot of people 53 00:02:43,919 --> 00:02:47,760 Speaker 3: with the helicopters winching them off their roofs, with their 54 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:49,720 Speaker 3: pets and things like that. On a lot of vision, 55 00:02:49,760 --> 00:02:52,400 Speaker 3: it's just heartache, and they're clean up because what happens 56 00:02:52,480 --> 00:02:53,880 Speaker 3: is the smell of everything as well. 57 00:02:54,480 --> 00:02:57,160 Speaker 1: Dear, And do you go back, Paul, this has happened 58 00:02:57,160 --> 00:02:59,720 Speaker 1: to you twice. You live near the river. Do you 59 00:02:59,720 --> 00:03:00,959 Speaker 1: make different choices now? 60 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:05,919 Speaker 3: I've got I've got a million dollar years waterfront? Yeah, waterfront, 61 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:09,480 Speaker 3: of course I do. It's a family farm. I mean 62 00:03:09,560 --> 00:03:12,720 Speaker 3: my business, the family business. It's a turf farm. It'll 63 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:15,480 Speaker 3: be out of business for twelve months. I've damage to 64 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:19,000 Speaker 3: the turf. My brother is devastated. But he's a fighter 65 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:22,000 Speaker 3: and these boys who work with him and own the property. 66 00:03:22,639 --> 00:03:24,639 Speaker 3: I just rent the house, you know, but I grew 67 00:03:24,680 --> 00:03:26,600 Speaker 3: up in it when I was a kid, so it's 68 00:03:26,680 --> 00:03:27,640 Speaker 3: nice to be back there. 69 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:30,320 Speaker 2: But still, you know, insurance isn't covering any of that. 70 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:32,919 Speaker 2: Do you need another fridge? To get you another fridge? 71 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:35,600 Speaker 3: Yeah, mate, I'll love a fridge, jonesy, but don't get 72 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:37,320 Speaker 3: it yet, wait till the powers back on. 73 00:03:38,600 --> 00:03:42,080 Speaker 2: Well, thank you, thanks for keeping us up. To keep up, 74 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:44,920 Speaker 2: please let chick in just to make sure that you 75 00:03:44,960 --> 00:03:47,880 Speaker 2: guys don't aren't abandoned by the government and let. 76 00:03:47,840 --> 00:03:50,480 Speaker 3: Us know we really yeah sorry. 77 00:03:50,280 --> 00:03:52,600 Speaker 1: Doesn't say when the time comes, let us know what 78 00:03:52,680 --> 00:03:54,080 Speaker 1: is needed. Because people want to help. 79 00:03:54,320 --> 00:03:56,600 Speaker 3: They want to help, I think if they've got a 80 00:03:56,600 --> 00:04:00,640 Speaker 3: self maintained accommodation to get up there. There's web sites around, 81 00:04:00,640 --> 00:04:02,680 Speaker 3: I believe, where you can be a volunteer, so they 82 00:04:02,720 --> 00:04:04,760 Speaker 3: direct you to different things you need to be fit 83 00:04:04,920 --> 00:04:08,200 Speaker 3: and able. I think they'll supply you with bits and 84 00:04:08,240 --> 00:04:10,840 Speaker 3: pieces that you'll need. I know there's a lot of 85 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:13,360 Speaker 3: things that need to be pulled out, and they're all 86 00:04:13,480 --> 00:04:18,400 Speaker 3: mud insected and also very heavy and wet. Both mattresses 87 00:04:18,480 --> 00:04:23,240 Speaker 3: and bedding and clothes and furniture that's sogging and falling apart. 88 00:04:23,320 --> 00:04:28,160 Speaker 3: The whole area is a bombshell. It's just incredible. It's horrific. 89 00:04:28,360 --> 00:04:30,880 Speaker 3: And the smells, you know that we've had dead animals 90 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:32,960 Speaker 3: parked up against my house, so we've had to get 91 00:04:33,040 --> 00:04:37,240 Speaker 3: rid of. You know, it's just sad and a lot 92 00:04:37,279 --> 00:04:39,320 Speaker 3: of sick animals of course that have been washed up 93 00:04:39,320 --> 00:04:43,600 Speaker 3: on the beaches nearby. So yeah, look, bring your own 94 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:46,440 Speaker 3: self contained thing, get on a website somewhere and find 95 00:04:46,480 --> 00:04:49,080 Speaker 3: out who you can deal with to get volunteers. We 96 00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:54,080 Speaker 3: had sixty on Saturday, forty Sunday, about forty yesterday, and 97 00:04:54,160 --> 00:04:56,400 Speaker 3: most of them are friends of all of our family. 98 00:04:57,040 --> 00:04:59,040 Speaker 1: And for those of people who aren't able to do that, 99 00:04:59,040 --> 00:05:00,640 Speaker 1: there will be financial ways we can help. 100 00:05:01,320 --> 00:05:01,520 Speaker 3: Mate. 101 00:05:01,520 --> 00:05:04,080 Speaker 2: You look after yourself. I came. We haven't forgotten you. 102 00:05:03,720 --> 00:05:05,719 Speaker 2: You're in the loop, a cat, You're in the mixture 103 00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:07,120 Speaker 2: at the top of our mind. 104 00:05:07,480 --> 00:05:10,000 Speaker 3: I appreciate it very much. And Demander, I love your 105 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:13,000 Speaker 3: gig made on the piano on a piano tutor. And 106 00:05:13,080 --> 00:05:14,000 Speaker 3: everything you say is. 107 00:05:13,960 --> 00:05:18,719 Speaker 1: Correct, always, Paul, always. 108 00:05:19,440 --> 00:05:19,800 Speaker 3: So much. 109 00:05:20,600 --> 00:05:22,560 Speaker 2: Paul Stanley reporting live from Tari