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On the 27th of February 2022, many in my hometown of Lismore NSW went to bed knowing that when they woke up they would be surrounded by flood waters. Much….
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They spent the night there, watching the cattle get swept away, powerless to help them.
I’m not so much survivor of the floods, but a bystander, so I have been trying to decide if I should post. This might provide a different perspective. On the….
Things were going great then the flood hit.
Hi I am Belinda, Me and my 14year old niece Jasmine lost our home and everything we owned in the Lismore floods we have no home and we are motel….
Mental Health Services hard to come by in Northern Rivers
A Northern Rivers resident Karla Brown was struggling with mental health issues prior to the floods. With a special needs child, having lost her home and being moved into temporary….
The number of lives at serious risk in this disaster is of a magnitude I have never seen before.
Chris didn’t grow up in Lismore, but his wife is a local, the two of them have deep roots in the area they have many family members and friends there,….
It will be a miracle if we find it!
We were lucky to live on a slope in Leycester St and had enough warning after seeing the backyard fill with water at 5am on Monday the 28th to get….
The image of water as far as the eye can see will stick with me forever.
Im a fifth generation Lismore local and i’ve always heard about and experienced floods growing up. Lismore knows floods, we know what happens with them and how to get back….
They didn’t have a boat, so they bought one on Gumtree
Just before 5am, their phones blew up with desperate messages from a friend with family stuck in flood waters. They didn’t have a boat, so they turned to Gumtree to….
We could hear boats coming and along with everyone else screamed into the night for help.
Where were you when it started? Home in Lismore How were you affected? Lost home and belongings What was your experience like? Horrible How did people in your community respond?….