Mr Peacock was the only person home on the family property when the freak storm appeared over Mugga Hill, and said he couldn't believe his eyes.

"It came down from the top of the hill, just trees and stuff getting thrown about," Mr Peacock said.

"I heard it first and it just sounded like a monster truck revving full noise or something and I was a bit worried when it got to the front gate here because it didn't have anywhere to go really."

"Big trees were flying around, you could see them and roofs off houses."

"It continued through the neighbour's place and just missed their house but I'd say it would have caused a fair bit of damage to their place. And old mate behind them, it wrecked his shed and I don't know where else it went really."

"We were pretty lucky. It sort of bypassed the house and didn't cause anything too drastic. Just [damaged] fences and we've got trees down everywhere and we had four horses get out - they finished up at the edge of town. They're at a friend's place but everyone said they were galloping straight down the bitumen."

Mr Peacock said it was lucky nobody was killed, "especially in some of these other houses that it went straight over the top of".

Friends and neighbours were helping with the clean-up on Tuesday, and removing debris, pulling out uprooted trees and fixing up fences.

"Neighbours and friends have come over and [are] just helping me get some fences sorted out so I can get my horses back in the paddock," Mr Peacock said.

"I've lived here since I was two and I've never seen anything like this before."