steve spowart rescued his friend 's horses stranded in deep storm water by paddling out to them on a surfboard .
the animals were in flooded fields near dungog , in the nsw hunter region .
one of the horses was caught in barbed wire and became startled as mr spowart tried to free it .
dungog is one of the areas hardest hit in the state by what 's being called the storm of the century .
three people have died in the severe weather and four houses were washed away .