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Speaker 1: Jumbish with Jonesy and Amanda Well.

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Speaker 2: Earlier this morning we spoke to Natalie Barr. She was

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Speaker 2: at Windsor Bridge. Things looked pretty dire there this morning.

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Speaker 2: A couple of hours later, a couple of hours more rain,

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Speaker 2: we thought we'd check what's happening. Tom Hartley from Channel

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Speaker 2: seven News is there right now.

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Speaker 3: Hello, Tom, morning morning, How you doing very well?

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Speaker 2: Tell us the story of Windsor Bridge.

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Speaker 3: Well, Windsor Bridge hopefully isn't coming down. I mean it

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Speaker 3: stood up to last year's flood. It's a floodproof bridge

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Speaker 3: completed in twenty twenty, but we're seeing it starting to

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Speaker 3: go under again. And this is pretty much like a

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Speaker 3: waypoint for people, a marker, if you will, sow all

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Speaker 3: the locals around here. Basically, they're all coming down here

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Speaker 3: checking the bridge to see where it's at, because they

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Speaker 3: know once that bridge goes under when we're going to

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Speaker 3: start seeing a lot of a lot more properties go

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Speaker 3: under too.

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Speaker 1: Sadly, so, when Natalie joined us a couple of hours ago,

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Speaker 1: she was saying it was at the bridge has gone

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Speaker 1: higher or lower in the last couple of hours.

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Speaker 3: It's coming up. It's coming up quite quickly, so it's

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Speaker 3: quite unbelievable. And you know, deja vu from covering this

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Speaker 3: last year. It's creeping up slowly on the basically on

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Speaker 3: the other side of window, it starts dipping down a

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Speaker 3: bit there. That whole road, that Bells line of road,

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Speaker 3: I mean, that's starting to go under too. And you

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Speaker 3: can just see how quickly the river itself is running

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Speaker 3: and how much you know, debris and muck and you trees.

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Speaker 3: You know, we're seeing starting to see you know, some

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Speaker 3: agriculture equipment as well, some shipping containers, that sort of stuff.

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Speaker 3: It's all starting to happen all over again. It's just, yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's pretty awful to see.

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Speaker 2: And as you say, Tom Bell's line of road, there's

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Speaker 2: going to be a whole lot of communities cut.

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Speaker 3: Off, yeah already. I mean we've we've heard from people

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Speaker 3: all over these parts were who already cut off. That's

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Speaker 3: why those warnings went out so early. You know, if

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Speaker 3: your house isn't going to get flooded, I mean, there's

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Speaker 3: every chance you could still get flooded into your community

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Speaker 3: out here. Because there are so many low lying roads,

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Speaker 3: so many low lying areas, a lot of people still

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Speaker 3: choose to stay and live on the flood plains and

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Speaker 3: they know what they're in for. But I mean last

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Speaker 3: year when this happened, we were told this is you know,

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Speaker 3: a one in a one hundred year event. Here we

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Speaker 3: are it's not even been a year in the floods

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Speaker 3: last year, so people are still in disbelief. Despite everything

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Speaker 3: that we've seen up in Queensland, all the New South Wales,

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Speaker 3: just to see it right here again, it's pretty unbelievable.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like we've all got short attention spans. Now

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Speaker 1: do you remember what happened last time? It was only

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Speaker 1: a year ago.

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Speaker 2: But as you say, Thomas, is what Nat said earlier

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Speaker 2: this morning too, that it's not even just about being flooded,

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Speaker 2: it's about being flooded in and so get your car

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Speaker 2: and go what before the waters rise?

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Speaker 3: Yeah exactly. I mean I remember last year we were

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Speaker 3: talking to people who were stuck in some of these communities,

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Speaker 3: you know, probably ten k's west of here for a

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Speaker 3: couple of weeks, you know, people having to take you know,

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Speaker 3: we had a local publican down the road who had

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Speaker 3: his helicopter out and he was flying supplies and doing

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Speaker 3: drops to people like that. So we're expecting all that's

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Speaker 3: to start happening again. The ride here Windsor Bridge, I

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Speaker 3: mean it's already too deep for SES and other authorities

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Speaker 3: to get over. So basically, if you didn't want to

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Speaker 3: get just on the other side of Windsor you're looking

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Speaker 3: at a three hour detour with the amount of roads

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Speaker 3: that are cut at the moment. Pretty much at the

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Speaker 3: same time, you just shouldn't be going out. I mean,

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Speaker 3: that's that's the message that we're hearing.

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Speaker 1: Isn't it. Well, thank you, Tom, thank you for joining us.

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Speaker 3: Jonesy and Amanda's yamination