As Lismore flooded, Danyon Saxe-Wilson awoke to a pool around his mattress and the family’s very insistent white cat, Kimba, pawing at his face, urging him to get up and go.
In the mad scramble out the window, onto a caravan floating by and then back onto his roof – before being rescued by a hero in a tinnie – Danyon, 26, lost track of Kimba.
