It was a tragic one on the NSW Far South Coast and one that will long live in many memories.

The sequence below from Ethan Ryan is pretty typical much of how our day evolved (or devolved) on December 31, 2019.

He shot from the same Bega location from mid-morning to mid-afternoon and the difference is terrifyingly real.

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