Wayne Eve was videoing a cool storm when the weather turned, dramatically.
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"It just went boom".
He fell through his front doorway, grabbing the dog, and passed out.
When he woke up his roof was gone, the walls had collapsed, debris was strewn for hundreds of metres and suspended in the treetops.
Mr Eve's dream home had been destroyed by the intense winds of a tornado which ripped through Axe Creek Saturday afternoon.
But he still thinks it was a lucky day.
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When Mr Eve came to, he saw his Patons Road house had been flattened. Debris was strewn through the trees behind the house, while the brick walls had collapsed.
"I thought 'Oh my God, there's been a tornado'. The whole thing was gone, everything was gone," he said.
The wind had flung a mattress 700 metres into the bushland.
Part of the roof was picked up and dropped 250 metres away.
A jumper of Mr Eve's hung in the branches of a tree.
But he was alive, his wife and young son weren't home, and his dog was fine.
Mr Eve was lucky he hadn't made it in past the hall. If he had, he's sure he'd be dead.
"The whole inside was double brick, and all the inside wall, we had a dividing wall in the middle there, and the whole wall fell in to where we were sitting," he said.
"Once the shower had come through, I thought I'd just go have 15 minutes sleep before Rach comes home from netball, and the whole wall fell on my bed.
"It's been a very lucky day."
Mr and Mrs Eve's property was destroyed by extreme winds which hit central Victoria as a cold front moved through on Saturday.
Bureau of Meteorology senior forecaster Keris Arndt said what ravaged Axe Creek appeared to be a tornado.
Mr Eve said the pattern of debris suggested the twisting motion of a tornado.
Winds dumped bricks and a basketball hoop in front of the house, which was the opposite direction to the prevailing wind.
The tornado left the shed, metres from the house, almost untouched.
It was different to any storm Mr Eve had seen at Axe Creek before.
"It just sounded like 10 jets, instantly. And I've never heard a sound like it, and I don't think I'll ever hear one again," Mr Eve said.
"I saw that final beautiful tree out in the paddock get stripped, and it was just like a toothpick, it was just gone. And I thought I'm in trouble here.
"The sound was insane, it was just absolutely insane. And, we lost our house.
"It's crazy, I shouldn't probably be here."
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Mr Eve said the support Patons Road, their friends, and their family had been amazing.
Emergency services, neighbours and Mr and Mrs Eve were at the property until 10pm on Saturday, after the tornado hit at about 3.20pm.
Neighbours and family banded together to support them clean up, and organised a guard over the property at night.
Mr and Mrs Eve had lived at the Axe Creek property with their young son for just over a year.
It was their dream home, Mr Eve said. Whether to rebuild, or clean up and go somewhere else, is the question they now face, he said.
He is still processing what happened, but is keen to stay in the area.
"I broke a rib, and got six stitches in the head. I don't know where I'm at at the moment, it's just a funny feeling of, 'Dunno'. It's just crazy," he said.
"The house, it was our dream home, we'd been looking for it, we'd searched for two years to find this house, and the house is just us. As we walked in it was just magic.
"But we love it out here, it's really quiet, fantastic neighbours."
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