"It's either laugh or cry": The aftermath of the Tasmania floods

Tasmania has just witnessed some of the worst flooding that it has seen in 40 years.

The same storm that battered Australia's east coast hit Tasmania with ferocity. Source: The Feed

For many people down there, they will move on. But for some in the farming community, this flood comes on the back of bushfires, drought and low milk prices.

The same storm that battered Australia's east coast two weeks ago, flooded the north west of Tasmania with the same ferocity.

Launceston City was largely saved by a levee bank that was only completed eight months earlier. Whilst not everyone was untouched, the city had just averted a potential disaster.

But at the same time, around one hundred kilometres west on the Mersey River, a tragedy was unfolding for Latrobe resident James Cameron.

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"My auntie was in the floods a couple of k up the road and she's disabled," he says.

"Uncle was trying to get her to safety and he just lost her ... she didn't survive, she didn't make it."

Cameron and his family were woken just after 2am on the Monday morning of the floods, with SES crews telling them it was time to evacuate.

"Well, it's either laugh or cry really isn't it? Like you just ... there's no good sitting down feeling sorry for yourself.

"Like we said before, there's always someone worse off than you so, let's get in and help each other out and stay busy and get on with it."

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