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    FLOOD TERROR TRAPPED IN A TREE... for two nights

    Jun 22, 2022 3 minutes

    Craig Mortensen, 48, Nanango, Qld

    Looking down at the black swirling water below, I shivered. ‘Are you sure we’ll be alright, Dad?’ asked my little girl Kira, nine, her teeth chattering.

    ‘Of course, baby,’ I replied. ‘I promised you, didn’t I?’

    ‘Yes, Dad,’ she said, clinging to me tightly.

    I couldn’t believe this was happening. One minute, we’d been driving along chatting. The next, we were fighting for our lives.

    At around 9.30pm, after dinner at my mum Jean’s house, in Childers, Qld, Kira

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