Eugowra hairdresser Amanda Mongan shares her thought of flood-preparedness in the region.
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00:00 Preparing, I don't know, how do you prepare for something like that?
00:03 Like, we just want to get our houses back in there
00:05 and hope it doesn't happen again.
00:07 If it happened again, I think we'd all just leave.
00:09 Leave the town for a buck.
00:10 I don't think anyone at the moment would have the stamina to do it again so soon.
00:14 Maybe the next generations might be able to.
00:17 The whole flood mitigation thing, I think they had plans to fix that,
00:22 but I don't think any of that's been finalised yet.
00:26 But what happened in New Garra, they could never stop that.
00:29 Anyway, with dams or anything.
00:32 I don't know, I guess there's probably more things going on
00:35 that I don't know about with preparation and warnings.
00:40 Definitely need to get more warnings in place.
00:42 We would be better prepared
00:45 with the accommodation side of things, I think.
00:50 I think that's just how the government's going to roll now,
00:52 in a natural disaster.
00:54 I don't know if we personally, mentally,
00:56 would cope with something like that again.
00:58 I say, in our generation, if we have five inches upstream
01:02 and everything's full, get the hell out,
01:03 because five foot of water's going to come.
01:07 And we kind of knew, I kind of knew in my head that sense,
01:10 but we still didn't fully act on it.
01:12 We lived in stuff, but never had any idea the extent of water,
01:16 I guess, that was coming.
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