May 22, 2025 • 6 mins
Jonesy's mate Paul Stanley joins us live from Taree with the impact the NSW flooding has had on his life, and the town.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
My Heart podcasts here more gold one on one point
seven podcasts.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Playlists and listen live on the free iHeart app. Jonesy
and Amanda jam Nation.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Been a horror week for residents of the North. The
northern New South Wales and mid North Coast once again
covered with huge down Paul's deadly floods. Three people have died,
fifty thousand have been left isolated. SEES has carried out
one hundred and seventy seven of flood rescues across the state.
One hundred and fifty three warnings are in place. Forty
of those are ATN emergency level.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Jeep.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Yeah, an old maid of mine. Paul Stanley, Not Paul
Stanley from Kiss, who is a close personal friend of mine,
by the way. Jonesy, Yeah, personal friend, but Paul Stanley.
We shared the radio together when we worked in Musclebrook.
Paul lives in tari In twenty twenty two, he was
inundated in his house was flooded. We're catching up with
him right now.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Hello Paul.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Oh, Hello Amanda Jonesy. Nice to hear your Golden voices.
You got pretty a smile on my dial while we
watched the carnage around here. The devastation. Yeah, horrible, poor.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Thing, Paul. So what's the state. Let's start with you
with your house.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Mine went halfway up into the house where I am
and it's never been flooded ever before. It was always
flood proof, but this one has been unprecedented with the
height of the flood. You know, I got up to
six point four or five meters, which is never done
around here. And that height was measured on Wednesday night
(01:34):
at around six pm. You know, I was lucky to
get out Tuesday morning and I did grab a managed
to grab a batch of good stuff. But there's still
a lot of like furniture, white goods, clothing not clothing,
the bedding and blankets and things like that. And what
happens is everything swirls around inside your homes. But you know,
(01:58):
for those poor people that the houses were totally under,
it's just devastating. And people from further out that are
near the river just getting inundated with flood water as
well and being rescued. It's just incredible, mind blowing.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Still, yeah, people just being rescued, winched from the from
their roofs, terrifying and leaving houses that they know will
be destroyed, even going back, as you say, to your place, Paul,
the mud, the mank the exhaustion of the process that's
still to come.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
I just hope that there's going to be a lot
of volunteers that come, but they'll need to be self contained, obviously,
in their caravans or their r vs or something like that,
because there's no accommodation. I am homeless. I'm living out
of a van. I'm living at a friend's place, but
he's also got other people here staying that don't have
a van, so I can sleep in my vana, you know,
(02:52):
allocate a bit of a bedroom for others. But yeah, look,
I'll get a with you guys. I've got a face
for radio. You know that, well, you.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Do the cross country Forward Secret sound.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Again. What are people doing?
Speaker 1 (03:08):
What are people doing for food? I mean, well, trucks
aren't going to the shops. What's happening?
Speaker 3 (03:13):
No, I don't know. I don't know. I'm kind of
stuck in a bit of a bubble. So when I
say that, I don't know what's going on a lot
only what I read on the internet. And some shops
have had food, but I don't know how that's going
to evolve, honestly, because this whole town, Wingham, Old Bar,
(03:35):
all those surrounding areas, they're all just blocked and you
can't get to them at all, and it will be days.
And I was reading this morning on Google Maps, when
I press on the X on the Tari Bridget says
it's not going to open until August, and I'm thinking,
what the hell, you know? I can't imagine. Maybe they're
just covering the butck to start with. I don't really know,
(03:55):
but it was had water up to the bottom of it,
maybe when over it a bit which was never ever
seen ever. And it's a big, massive bridge, So I
don't know. All my family that owned the farm where
I live. I grew up there and they own it now.
My brother and his children they can't get to town
and they've got to come into town to go to
(04:16):
the farm. They're out at Old Bar and Wallaby Point.
So I don't know what's going to happen, and obviously
so many people that, Yeah, it's just devastating. I hope.
I think the government are sending assistance. I would like
to hope, so in the form of volunteers and the
(04:36):
Defense Force and whatever else. I would really hope.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
That the government, Lindsay is on it, Chris Minds is
on the case. And I don't think you guys are
by yourselves at the moment. But just the rain comes down,
I guess got to stay dry, mate.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Yeah, and look there's no power for days, you know
in our areas, and now pumps, the pump water, you know,
they're all gone. Food in the fridge will be off.
We're going to throw out so much stuff and we
need people to help us. And we're going to get
in early to clean the mud and the walls and
whatever we can and get all this stuff out before
it goes dry hard and starts to stink internally in
(05:14):
the house. Yeah, it's a it's a nightmare. It's horrific. Yeah,
sleepless nights at the moment.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
But we're thinking of your mate, Thank you.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Thank you appreciate it. Then I hope this little bill
might tell people to grab their caravans or their RVs
and get those gun boots on and lend a help.
If this is what Australians do, you know, they help,
They come out of the woodwork and they help, and
yeah we need food as well. I'm sure there'll be
a lot of fresh food that won't be available.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
On your mate.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Thank you, Thank you again.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
I love chatting with you. Jones.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
You know that.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
You too, Thanks mate.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Thank you down there reporting live as it happens, but
it as well before and then to have it again,
you know.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
And the people that get rescued say, at least I've
got my life, but then the rest of it. I
saw an SEES worker whose children had to be rescued.
She was out there volunteering for others, and then she
was finally reunited with her own children. There's so many
heartbreaking stories.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
The weather forecast rain is expected to ease and clear
from the state on Saturday, but the flooding, of course,
will linger
My Heart podcasts here more gold one on one point
seven podcasts.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Playlists and listen live on the free iHeart app. Jonesy
and Amanda jam Nation.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Been a horror week for residents of the North. The
northern New South Wales and mid North Coast once again
covered with huge down Paul's deadly floods. Three people have died,
fifty thousand have been left isolated. SEES has carried out
one hundred and seventy seven of flood rescues across the state.
One hundred and fifty three warnings are in place. Forty
of those are ATN emergency level.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Jeep.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Yeah, an old maid of mine. Paul Stanley, Not Paul
Stanley from Kiss, who is a close personal friend of mine,
by the way. Jonesy, Yeah, personal friend, but Paul Stanley.
We shared the radio together when we worked in Musclebrook.
Paul lives in tari In twenty twenty two, he was
inundated in his house was flooded. We're catching up with
him right now.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Hello Paul.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Oh, Hello Amanda Jonesy. Nice to hear your Golden voices.
You got pretty a smile on my dial while we
watched the carnage around here. The devastation. Yeah, horrible, poor.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Thing, Paul. So what's the state. Let's start with you
with your house.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Mine went halfway up into the house where I am
and it's never been flooded ever before. It was always
flood proof, but this one has been unprecedented with the
height of the flood. You know, I got up to
six point four or five meters, which is never done
around here. And that height was measured on Wednesday night
(01:34):
at around six pm. You know, I was lucky to
get out Tuesday morning and I did grab a managed
to grab a batch of good stuff. But there's still
a lot of like furniture, white goods, clothing not clothing,
the bedding and blankets and things like that. And what
happens is everything swirls around inside your homes. But you know,
(01:58):
for those poor people that the houses were totally under,
it's just devastating. And people from further out that are
near the river just getting inundated with flood water as
well and being rescued. It's just incredible, mind blowing.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Still, yeah, people just being rescued, winched from the from
their roofs, terrifying and leaving houses that they know will
be destroyed, even going back, as you say, to your place, Paul,
the mud, the mank the exhaustion of the process that's
still to come.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
I just hope that there's going to be a lot
of volunteers that come, but they'll need to be self contained, obviously,
in their caravans or their r vs or something like that,
because there's no accommodation. I am homeless. I'm living out
of a van. I'm living at a friend's place, but
he's also got other people here staying that don't have
a van, so I can sleep in my vana, you know,
(02:52):
allocate a bit of a bedroom for others. But yeah, look,
I'll get a with you guys. I've got a face
for radio. You know that, well, you.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Do the cross country Forward Secret sound.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Again. What are people doing?
Speaker 1 (03:08):
What are people doing for food? I mean, well, trucks
aren't going to the shops. What's happening?
Speaker 3 (03:13):
No, I don't know. I don't know. I'm kind of
stuck in a bit of a bubble. So when I
say that, I don't know what's going on a lot
only what I read on the internet. And some shops
have had food, but I don't know how that's going
to evolve, honestly, because this whole town, Wingham, Old Bar,
(03:35):
all those surrounding areas, they're all just blocked and you
can't get to them at all, and it will be days.
And I was reading this morning on Google Maps, when
I press on the X on the Tari Bridget says
it's not going to open until August, and I'm thinking,
what the hell, you know? I can't imagine. Maybe they're
just covering the butck to start with. I don't really know,
(03:55):
but it was had water up to the bottom of it,
maybe when over it a bit which was never ever
seen ever. And it's a big, massive bridge, So I
don't know. All my family that owned the farm where
I live. I grew up there and they own it now.
My brother and his children they can't get to town
and they've got to come into town to go to
(04:16):
the farm. They're out at Old Bar and Wallaby Point.
So I don't know what's going to happen, and obviously
so many people that, Yeah, it's just devastating. I hope.
I think the government are sending assistance. I would like
to hope, so in the form of volunteers and the
(04:36):
Defense Force and whatever else. I would really hope.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
That the government, Lindsay is on it, Chris Minds is
on the case. And I don't think you guys are
by yourselves at the moment. But just the rain comes down,
I guess got to stay dry, mate.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Yeah, and look there's no power for days, you know
in our areas, and now pumps, the pump water, you know,
they're all gone. Food in the fridge will be off.
We're going to throw out so much stuff and we
need people to help us. And we're going to get
in early to clean the mud and the walls and
whatever we can and get all this stuff out before
it goes dry hard and starts to stink internally in
(05:14):
the house. Yeah, it's a it's a nightmare. It's horrific. Yeah,
sleepless nights at the moment.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
But we're thinking of your mate, Thank you.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Thank you appreciate it. Then I hope this little bill
might tell people to grab their caravans or their RVs
and get those gun boots on and lend a help.
If this is what Australians do, you know, they help,
They come out of the woodwork and they help, and
yeah we need food as well. I'm sure there'll be
a lot of fresh food that won't be available.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
On your mate.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Thank you, Thank you again.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
I love chatting with you. Jones.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
You know that.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
You too, Thanks mate.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Thank you down there reporting live as it happens, but
it as well before and then to have it again,
you know.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
And the people that get rescued say, at least I've
got my life, but then the rest of it. I
saw an SEES worker whose children had to be rescued.
She was out there volunteering for others, and then she
was finally reunited with her own children. There's so many
heartbreaking stories.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
The weather forecast rain is expected to ease and clear
from the state on Saturday, but the flooding, of course,
will linger
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