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Whole Town Garage Sale March 7, 2025. 8am – 2pm

(No Early Birds please)
Maps $5 + sausage sizzle (fire ban permitting)

FUNDRAISER to complete & launch the 2021 Storm Documentary 

The Night That Rained Trees

In June’21 Victoria was hit with up to 300mm of rain and 12 (pitch black) hours of howling winds, peaking at 180kph; truly a “cool climate cyclone”. It brought moist tropical air all the way from New Caledonia to wrap around a belting mid-winter storm pushing up from the Southern Ocean. The mix was explosive. Hundreds of thousands of trees were uprooted or simply snapped in half.
With no lights, no power and failing communications, Blackwood residents hunkered down in a stonking great forest of 60m giants, raining down around their heads.
The aim of this film is to understand and document this freak weather event and the resulting stories of endurance and recovery.
Thank you to the community for its patience (the project has taken much longer than anticipated due to financial constraints) and special thanks to those who have contributed to the story.
We’re on the home run now with the project and expect to screen it in a couple of months’ time.

Brendan Hehir

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