Rescued: Lucy Connolly, 29, was swept away by floodwaters at Eidsvold and clung to a Polonia tree overnight until her neighbour Rodney Hartwig rescued her in raging floodwaters. Picture: Megan Slade Source: The Sunday Mail (Qld)
Good neighbour: Lucy Connolly's rescuer Rodney Hartwig. Picture: Megan Slade. Source: The Sunday Mail (Qld)
AN EIDSVOLD woman has told how she spent five hours clinging to a tree as flood waters surged past her, to be saved only when an emergency beacon became wedged in branches nearby.
Lucy Connolly, 29, told The Sunday Mail she shared the tree with a snake, watching as other animals washed past her.
``There were animals, cows and cars floating past me,'' Ms Connolly said.
``I just felt a feeling of calm, I did a lot of praying I thought about all the things I still wanted to do,'' she said.
The council worker said the only warning she had of the impending disaster was when she heard her toilet gurgling about 12.30am last Saturday.
Ms Connolly called her parents for help and they phoned her neighbour.
She fled the house but was swept over the property fence, across the road and hurtled into a neighbour's polonia tree plantation.
Many of the trees were flattened. ``I finally got one and I just clung to it,'' she said.
Neighbour Rodney Hartwig, 63, said he searched for Ms Connolly on a tractor but the water was too high.
Mr Hartwig loaded his boat and waited with son Graham until about 5am.
When they got to Ms Connolly's house, it was completely submerged. ``I said to my son `She's gone','' Mr Hartwig said.
They then saw a flashing light an emergency beacon that had washed up from the John Goleby Weir 3km away and headed towards it and screams for help.
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