January 21, 2024 • 5 mins
"I don't think people have any comprehension of what it was really like"
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Pitty mad Donna, Good morning, welcome to twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
And having a year to you guys.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Now, I got to set it up. We're at the
Magic Millions Hour, which was such a successful day, and
I said to you, how was your Christmas? It was
like a general like question that you kind of ask everyone,
and I haven't really had one. You had better to
no working since the storms because your area got the
hardest hit.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
It did get a big hit. And it's just been
so sad to be perfectly honest, to see the destruction
I mean, and what people are going through. And I
don't think until you go to northern Gold Coast and
have a look, you have any comprehension of what it
was like. Yeah, well can.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
You explain it to us?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Well, it was. They're not calling it the tornado, but
I have photographs that show that it looked just like
a tornado and it ripped through a suage from Tambourine Mountain.
If you stand at Oxenford at Riverstone Crossing that I
represent and look up the hill, it's really eerie because
there's no leaves left on the trees for a whole
(01:04):
wide stretch. It just came down the Mountain. It took
a couple of houses out at Wongawollen. There's one side
of the street on Wongo Wallan Drive that's not so
severely affected because of the slopes, but the opposite side
is it's just totally destroyed. So we're doing the operation cleanup.
(01:24):
I think we've done about three hundred streets to day
and thirty percent, but we haven't got to Division III yet,
which is a bit of a worry, but we're getting
there really.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Yeah, and all the workers, the council workers have been
working NonStop twenty four to seven, really, haven't they.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
It's been amazing. The Mari and I for the first
week were buried in their dmu just organizing the recovery
really and how we could help people without power, people
without water, people who couldn't get out of their street
to get food. So the first week was sort of
buried in helping people through the event, and then of
(02:01):
course we headed towards recovery, so the parks will be last.
We're trying to focus on people's homes first up because
they need to be able to use their properties. But
we've done about a one hundred k of road, so
we're a third of the way there, but there's still
such a lot of work to do.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
What was it like for you on Christmas Night? What
were you doing with your family when all of this happened.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Well, we had a big celebration Christmas Eve, So Christmas
night I kind of get girly and I couldn't believe it.
I was actually in bed, to be perfectly honest. Yeah,
and then when it struck and the noise, the noise
is just amazing. So anyway, people have been terrific. On
(02:46):
the weekend, the residents of Riverstone Crossing asked me to
get a great big skip in for them, which we did,
and that's a body corporate area. So we put it
in the body corporate area at the river House and
the whole community came out and filled it within a
couple of hours. So another one's going there now. But
community spirit has been so so we're.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Hearing, we're hearing about so many different stories where people
have just liked the council workers, the people the general
public have been working twenty four to seven over a
period of time as well. I think what shocked a
lot of people is that they obviously they were hit
by the storm in different ways, but they still had
power and so forth and started going back onto their
(03:32):
normal life. And then you'd get a shock when you'd
hear seven days, eight days, two weeks, three weeks, oh,
there's still no power in certain areas, and all of
a sudden, you go, oh my god, those poor people.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Well, most of the residents at Wongowolum was without power
for thirteen days straight, so we were sending out generators
to people who were really unwell, so unwell that they
couldn't be moved. So there's so many stories behind the
storm that are just heartbreaking. There's so many people who
haven't asked for help, and they see others being helped
(04:07):
and say, why haven't we been helped? But unless they
contact us directly, you don't know what their circumstances are.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
I was going to say, Donna, we've done this on
air this morning from the council.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Great.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
If people want Donna's direct line, she's good for a chat.
But you can also go to CITYGC dot au forward
slash clean up correct and that's another way to get help.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Yeah. So I just I just want to say thank
you if I can, to all of the people, because
so many have been very, very grateful. We haven't Like
I personally haven't done so much, but everyone thinks I
have And it's just the community that really has rallied.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
And humble.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Yeah you are, Yes, we know you've done a lot,
even just listening little pocket Rocket.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
OA, good on your DNA.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Okay, all of it.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Spy scaleing him with jade hot tomato
Pitty mad Donna, Good morning, welcome to twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
And having a year to you guys.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Now, I got to set it up. We're at the
Magic Millions Hour, which was such a successful day, and
I said to you, how was your Christmas? It was
like a general like question that you kind of ask everyone,
and I haven't really had one. You had better to
no working since the storms because your area got the
hardest hit.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
It did get a big hit. And it's just been
so sad to be perfectly honest, to see the destruction
I mean, and what people are going through. And I
don't think until you go to northern Gold Coast and
have a look, you have any comprehension of what it
was like. Yeah, well can.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
You explain it to us?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Well, it was. They're not calling it the tornado, but
I have photographs that show that it looked just like
a tornado and it ripped through a suage from Tambourine Mountain.
If you stand at Oxenford at Riverstone Crossing that I
represent and look up the hill, it's really eerie because
there's no leaves left on the trees for a whole
(01:04):
wide stretch. It just came down the Mountain. It took
a couple of houses out at Wongawollen. There's one side
of the street on Wongo Wallan Drive that's not so
severely affected because of the slopes, but the opposite side
is it's just totally destroyed. So we're doing the operation cleanup.
(01:24):
I think we've done about three hundred streets to day
and thirty percent, but we haven't got to Division III yet,
which is a bit of a worry, but we're getting
there really.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Yeah, and all the workers, the council workers have been
working NonStop twenty four to seven, really, haven't they.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
It's been amazing. The Mari and I for the first
week were buried in their dmu just organizing the recovery
really and how we could help people without power, people
without water, people who couldn't get out of their street
to get food. So the first week was sort of
buried in helping people through the event, and then of
(02:01):
course we headed towards recovery, so the parks will be last.
We're trying to focus on people's homes first up because
they need to be able to use their properties. But
we've done about a one hundred k of road, so
we're a third of the way there, but there's still
such a lot of work to do.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
What was it like for you on Christmas Night? What
were you doing with your family when all of this happened.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Well, we had a big celebration Christmas Eve, So Christmas
night I kind of get girly and I couldn't believe it.
I was actually in bed, to be perfectly honest. Yeah,
and then when it struck and the noise, the noise
is just amazing. So anyway, people have been terrific. On
(02:46):
the weekend, the residents of Riverstone Crossing asked me to
get a great big skip in for them, which we did,
and that's a body corporate area. So we put it
in the body corporate area at the river House and
the whole community came out and filled it within a
couple of hours. So another one's going there now. But
community spirit has been so so we're.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Hearing, we're hearing about so many different stories where people
have just liked the council workers, the people the general
public have been working twenty four to seven over a
period of time as well. I think what shocked a
lot of people is that they obviously they were hit
by the storm in different ways, but they still had
power and so forth and started going back onto their
(03:32):
normal life. And then you'd get a shock when you'd
hear seven days, eight days, two weeks, three weeks, oh,
there's still no power in certain areas, and all of
a sudden, you go, oh my god, those poor people.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Well, most of the residents at Wongowolum was without power
for thirteen days straight, so we were sending out generators
to people who were really unwell, so unwell that they
couldn't be moved. So there's so many stories behind the
storm that are just heartbreaking. There's so many people who
haven't asked for help, and they see others being helped
(04:07):
and say, why haven't we been helped? But unless they
contact us directly, you don't know what their circumstances are.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
I was going to say, Donna, we've done this on
air this morning from the council.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Great.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
If people want Donna's direct line, she's good for a chat.
But you can also go to CITYGC dot au forward
slash clean up correct and that's another way to get help.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Yeah. So I just I just want to say thank
you if I can, to all of the people, because
so many have been very, very grateful. We haven't Like
I personally haven't done so much, but everyone thinks I
have And it's just the community that really has rallied.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
And humble.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Yeah you are, Yes, we know you've done a lot,
even just listening little pocket Rocket.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
OA, good on your DNA.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Okay, all of it.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Spy scaleing him with jade hot tomato
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