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Volume 6 Edition 59 ISSN 1834-0318
WEDNESDAY October 3, 2012
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The pub with no roof! A number of Bredbo residents were woken around 5am last Friday to the sound of a large section of roof being torn noisily from the historic Bredbo Inn Hotel in powerful winds that ripped through the Village overnight. The sections of the roof hit powerlines, cutting off power in the Village and littering the highway with debris, but fortunately there were no injuries or damage to other properties in the vicinity of the Hotel. Mary and Allan Michael, who came in as managers of the Bredbo Inn Hotel only 10 weeks ago, were in shock but coping well under the circumstances and some local residents were already out and about, tracking down a generator to try to keep the cool room operational while the
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power was down. Essential Energy employee and local resident, Paul McMahon was on the scene, along with SES crews and was busy with assessing the damage. “We’ll probably be here for most of the day.” he said “We’re looking at a big clean-up here!” In true community spirit, a number of locals arrived at the scene within moments to help out before heading off to their own places of work. Local resident, Keith Ashurst, who is on holidays from his TAFE studies, donned gloves, grabbed a garbage bag and travelled up and down the verges, cleaning up the large pieces of roofing insulation which were strewn along the highway throughout the Village.
Mr McMahon said the locals arriving at the scene so promptly had been a really great help. The section of roof that was torn off was from the oldest part of the Hotel, which dates back 176 years, and the Michaels are wondering if the strong winds of just a few weeks ago may have weakened the structure in some way, leaving it vulnerable to the fierce wind that blew in at dawn on Friday. At time of writing, the Michaels were waiting on an assessment from engineers, who were on their way to assess the damage to the historic building, and the subsequent report will dictate when the Bredbo Inn Hotel may be trading again.
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