Vicki and John Crow don’t describe what happened to Eugowra as a flood. “It was a 5ft (150cm) wall of water, being pushed by a freight train, going at 100 miles an hour,” Vicki says. “It picked up houses and just moved them.”
When it descended, it demolished their new shed as if it was made of tinfoil and lifted their four-bedroom home off its foundations. The concrete patio floated 10cm above the ground, as did the hallway.
