The caravan parked in Kim Jeffrey's driveway was supposed to be temporary.

A place to lay her head for a few weeks, maybe a month at most.

That was a year ago.

The 52-year-old is still living in the van, unable to return to her Casterton home after a freak hailstorm on October 16 last year tore through the south-west Victorian town, damaging her roof and flooding the house.

"It certainly at times has completely broken me,"

Ms Jeffrey said.

Twelve months later, timber beams still prop up the ceiling of her damaged home.

"I think it's less about when we'll get back into the house, and more about getting through the process and surviving," she said.

Ms Jeffrey said it took two months before she was even allowed to get her things from the property.

She estimates more than 80 per cent

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