While Paul and Yvonne Wurst’s farm only received 22.5mm of rain on Tuesday – they and their neighbours have bore the brunt of water gushing down from The Hog’s Head, a watershed in the Orroroo, Tarcowie and Pekina region.

About four inches of rain fell there in a two-hour spate on Tuesday – when it reached Appila it washed fences away and filled others with debris.

Paul and one of his neighbours, Jim Heaslip, completely lost three or four kilometres of fences – both boundary and internal.

“We have had six (crops) in a row that were bad,” Paul said.

“We were just about to start reaping.”

He lost acres of crop, which he now won’t even put the header over.

“We were pretty lucky we didn’t lose a lot of top soil.”

Instead they are tackling the clean-up while ankle-deep in silt.

“It is the most water I have ever seen on the Appila Plains in the 56 years of my life,” Paul said.

“It just about made you cry after seeing what the season was.”

By Wednesday, the creek was still running but most of the water had gone.

Paul and Yvonne had begun the heartbreaking work of cleaning up – dirty and heavy work - slogging through silt to pull debris from fences.

They were thankful for the help of neighbours in the task, and relations who sent over sandwiches to feed them as they worked.

However, they were hoping the State Government – or some other organisation – would step in and give them and others to suffer flood damage some help.

Member for Frome Rob Kerrin and Member for Stuart Graham Gunn will be pushing the State Government to assess Tuesday's Mid North storm damage, in consultation with the South Australian Farmers' Federation.

Mr Kerrin said on Wednesday that he had viewed damage in some of his electorate on Tuesday night.

While most of the water had flowed away by then it had left a lot of silt behind, along with ruining fences, however because damage was hit and miss throughout the Mid North it was expected to take a week before the full damage was known.