“It’s coming up a foot a day, which means I have about a week,” says Menindee’s Robin Eaton. “Once it gets to there, I am going to bail out,” he adds, showing the sticks he has put in the ground to mark where the Darling-Baaka River has risen on his property each day in the past week.
Eaton has lifted everything off the ground in his house on Irrigation Road. He says he can evacuate in under an hour.
