Homes destroyed during fierce Australia Day storm on Eyre Peninsula
ABCTwo farming families on South Australia's Eyre Peninsula have been left homeless after a tornado-like weather event on Australia Day ripped through their properties and destroyed their homes. Key points: Two family homes have been destroyed during a storm on the Eyre Peninsula Record-breaking rain in SA's west and north resulted in the Cummins township flooding The state government has declared a major emergency Nick and Amy Maddern were forced to huddle behind a wall in their Yeelanna farmhouse with their three children aged 16, 14 and 11 as the freak storm ripped off the roof and pushed in brick veneer walls. "We've had tin off the roof and sheds before and the little house actually copped it from another storm last year," Ms Maddern said. Cummins insurance broker David Guidera said in the past eight months the district had experienced "everything" including two large fires and other weather damage.
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