. >> damian leshki is a news cameraman in brisbane, australia. >> the newsroom had contacted me to tell me to sort of be on alert for any flooding. the highway was blocked. so i thought, well, i'll go up, just check it out. >> road crews have been busy expanding a major highway, but when damian leshki arrives, he can't see any traces of pavement. >> when i pulled up, it looked like an ocean. there were cars back for miles and miles. the water was well and truly across the road. >> firefighter steve waterworth is on duty that night, and he's busy pumping water off the road, now waist deep in some spots. >> while we were doing that, a road crew turned up and the foreman got out, and they looked at where the water was being blocked and knew where the drains were. >> the foreman knows what's blocking the drains -- sandbags. they've been temporarily put in place for construction. he decides to send one of his men, david winter, into the waist-deep water. >> i saw one workman, david, who was ducking down under the water trying to pull these sandbags out. another man had hold of his hand. >> t