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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Environment
Henry Belot

‘A heifer came into the bedroom’: Kevin survived the NSW floods – but his dairy farm might not

silhouette of a man walking down a hallway in a weatherboard house with inches of mud on the floor
Kevin Schlenert spent a night with five of his dairy cattle sleeping in a partially inundated house on a raised mattress before being rescued. Photograph: Dean Sewell

When the water began to rise on Kevin Schlenert’s farm in Glenthorne near Taree, eventually submerging every inch of it, he took shelter on a raised mattress in his bedroom. But as he waited for help, fearing the worst, some of his cattle had the same idea.

“I had a heifer come into the bedroom,” Schlenert says.

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