Wobonga Lane and parts of the Great Alpine Road are closed with the Ovens River at Eurobin peaking at a major flood level of 6.9 metres late last night.

“If you’re not getting burnt out you’re getting flooded out, that’s farming,” Eurobin grazier and former Ovens-Eurobin CFA chief Barry Mapley said.

“We could get out with a tractor but otherwise we’re stuck.”

Floodwater was steady last night according to the SES.

“All the flats are under and the next door neighbours have got silage bales floating around the paddock,” Mr Mapley said.

“I’ve got some fences flattened but that’s normal with a flood.”

Mr Mapley said one couple who were house-sitting a home now surrounded by floodwater had shifted to Bright on Saturday night.

“I went out just on dark and they said they were leaving and I said ‘well that’s good because we don’t have to worry about you’,” Mr Mapley said.

“We’ve got to go and try and get their chooks out later, I can see them up on their perch but they would be a bit hungry.”

Mr Mapley said the floodwater had not reached as high as the 1993 floods in the district.

“It’s not a big flood, roughly about the same as the 1998 I would say, that’s if it doesn’t come up any more.”

His cattle have been moved to higher ground and any attempts at feeding them with hay will be left until later in the week.

“You make a hell of a lot of mess trying to feed them in this weather, you plough the paddocks up and then where they’re feeding the cattle bog it up,” Mr Mapley said.

“I can go back a fair few floods right back to 1956, that was the biggest flood I’ve ever seen but there’s been a few since.

“We’ll survive, we’re CFA and we look after ourselves.”