It's been years since the Kemp family have enjoyed a meal, watched TV or even slept in their own house.
In October 2020, a landslide cascaded down a slope in Sydney's Northern Beaches, dislodging boulders that took out the side of the building.
It was the second property ravaged by natural disaster — seven years earlier, their family home in the Blue Mountains was lost to a bushfire.
"They put their entire life savings and all of their retirement into this [Great Mackerel Beach] place," Harry Kemp said of his parents, Ray and Lorraine.
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