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"Vicki and John Crow don’t describe what happened to Eugowra as a flood. “It
was a 5ft (150cm) wall of water, being pushed by a freight train, going at 100
miles an hour,” Vicki says. “It picked up houses and just moved them.”
When it descended, it demolished their new shed as if it was made of tinfoil
and lifted their four-bedroom home off its foundations. The concrete patio
floated 10cm above the ground, as did the hallway.
The Crows spent hours neck deep in water before Vicki was helicoptered to
safety. John waited for a boat with their great dane Jedda, who survived the
flood but was put down the next day on John’s lap due to the impact of trauma.
That he didn’t die in fear is one consolation in the hardest month of their
lives.
“The house will have to be demolished,” Vicki says. “Two caravans, five cars
are gone. It’s total devastation and the whole town copped it.”
A month on from the floods that tore through central-west NSW like an inland
tsunami, residents in Eugowra are facing a long and expensive road to recovery.
The latest figures from the Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) show 4,412
insurance claims have been logged across the region since the floods hit,
including at least 2,880 claims on property.
This week, dozens of residents attended two days of ICA-led sessions with
insurers in Eugowra and Forbes. Some have been told the claims process will
take weeks, others months. In the meantime, their homes remain uninhabitable."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
