A group of women took refuge from a low-lying flood in a rural village, chatting and drinking warm cups of tea and coffee on a verandah under blue skies.
Just 25 minutes later, Anne South heard her daughter scream as a torrent of water suddenly smashed a glass door at their home in Eugowra, in central western NSW, on the morning of November 14, 2022.
Within moments Ms South, her daughter and six...