shovelling

"Half an hour had gone and there was no call back from them, so that's when I phoned friends and we started getting in and shovelling them all down to the river."

And yet against the Waratahs they were still shovelling the ball out the backline without doing the hard yards up front.

Fellow resident Mark Clayton, helped to co-ordinate the sandbag collection, shovelling more than 140 tonnes of sand.

Referencing July's decision to cut winter fuel payments, a pension top-up, she added: "He's freezing pensioners, while shovelling money to Mauritius."

We saw men cooking on open fires, with elderly women shovelling sand around the bottom of their shacks to stop water getting in.