OLIVIA Mitchell was at home with her two sons, Darby and Cooper, when Monday's tornado came roaring up the hill to their Acacia Road property.
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Thought to be one of the first properties hit by Monday's freak storm, the tornado tore ferociously through the family's outbuildings, pulling iron sheeting off their carports and sheds and ripping steel uprights and concrete foundations clear out of the ground.
Olivia and her boys hid together in the hallway, terrified.
"A big roar and like war jets dropping bombs on the house. I felt like it was going to blow the roof off the house," Cooper said.
"I could feel a pressure on the house and I could hear all of this going," Mrs Mitchell said the next day, motioning at the twisted mess that used to be the family's car-port.
Much of the debris, including one steel upright with concrete foundation attached, landed on Mrs Mitchell's car.
Husband Leigh Mitchell said a friend had left the shed about half an hour before it was destroyed by the tornado.
"I'm normally home at this time of the afternoon, I could have been in there," Mr Mitchell said.
"But I was down doing the shopping and Liv called me and I just dropped the trolley and sprinted."
"There were trees on the road and I just had to get out of the car and start sprinting. I came up the driveway and just gave her a big hug and a kiss. The most important thing is Liv and the kids are still breathing. That's all that matters. This can all be replaced."
"Years of hard work gone in about seven or eight seconds - good old Mother Nature."