"We've had a significant amount of rain and in some cases I've seen reports of up to 600mm so far for various places,"he said.
"The wind was intense, we had the trees fall in the house where we were living and the wind was just blowing really hard,"resident Daniel Toby said.
"When we left the house, I kind of said my goodbyes and thought we weren't going to come back to a house,"she said.