STORM RIPPED OUR HOUSE IN TWO
Sep 15, 2021
3 minutes
As told to Kathryn Lewsey
Roxanne Bivolcheff, 47, Ferntree Gully, Vic
As I washed the plates after dinner, the howling wind rattled the windows.
‘Mum, I’ve finished my schoolwork,’ my son Joope, nine, said. ‘Can we watch a movie?’
‘Okay darl’, pick one,’ I smiled.
The two of us lived in an A-frame chalet house on top of a mountain in Olinda, in the Dandenong Ranges.
Surrounded by tall sweeping trees, we loved being among nature.
But all day a storm had raged and, now night, it was
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