.“I turned to the back door and the water just started coming in, so then I opened front door to try to get out, in time to see my car floating away. When the water started coming, it built up so fast, and the next thing I knew the water had lifted the house and pulled it over the other side of the road, and that’s where I found myself,” he said.The small town was littered with cars, scraps of wall and houses like Hoswell’s on Tuesday.
Elsewhere on the street, a wheelbarrow is entangled in a picket fence, the shed from a roadside petrol stop is wrapped around an electricity pole, and a water tank has been dragged across the pavement. Cars that were spun around and washed out are lodged in trees at all angles. Eventually, once the water had receded enough, he heard people walking down the road and yelled out for help. They got him up to the showground, where he was then airlifted to Orange Base Hospital for observation overnight.