Record flooding on the Fitzroy River is causing havoc across the Kimberley, with authorities warning many communities could be cut off for a week.
He said one had gone two metres underwater since the night before."You can hear the water gurgling underneath the house, and when you see your fridge start to float past you and you can almost reach out and touch it, it sparks the anxiety even though we are safe."Mr Davis said his son, Tristan, who owned a small landscaping business in town, had likely lost around $25,000 worth of equipment in the waters already.
"We've got a rescue boat on the way, and the boat is going to move some of the guests here to the [airport] and they'll be flying away to Broome," he said.Mr Herat said the lodge would move to skeleton staff once the guests had been evacuated and would focus on assessing the damage."The trees are everywhere. There's lots of dead animals, lots of rubbish."
"We've been scrambling trying to check on people, and we've given a few people a lift into town already this morning," he said.
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