Residents in the towns of Grafton and Lawrence on Australia’s east coast return to properties after a week-long torrential downpour, which has inundated large swathes of the country's east. Peter Clement, 61, returns to his flight school in South Grafton where the disaster has potentially destroyed planes worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. "None of us on the coast have seen an inundation of water so quickly," says Clement. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES