NSW Weather

Would you believe that 17 years later the affected area remains a disaster zone with no reparation whatsoever apart from a couple of streets funded and redeveloped by a couple of movie actors.  And little surprise give the victims were almost exclusively black in a Republican run State Government.

Thankfully in Australia not even the current "do-nothing" Federal Government led as it is by an "I don't hold a hose" mellifluously empty vessel can ignore the suffering in Lismore and surrounds and hopefully if very tardily act accordingly.  

Yes hay on the way and a few other things sent up by the ATC, very welcome.

I saw some friends last evening that have been working at the evac centre when the first flood came, I had a very restless night after hearing the events that took place and still feel sick to the stomach about what people are going through.

Two people at the Evacuation centre took their lives after they lost everything in the floods, one young man said he was going back to try and find his dog but was later found in the shower room cubicle, so very sad and helpless he must have felt.

Our friends have a young 20 YO son who in in the ADF stationed at Darwin, a number of them came down to stay at Casino the help with various tasks, this particular young man and another had to go from house to house in Lismore checking on the possibility of persons in their homes, they together found 140 drowned. They had to paint a large D on the doors so that the relevant people could collect the bodies. Apparently they were all face down. Now I wonder how many others wre recovered if these two young men found that many? This has not been out in media circles.

The other interesting point made was by Aboriginal people whose families have lived in the area since day dot and the stories passed down revealed that there have been even larger floods in Lismore in times gone by.

I imagine this is a little known but much appreciated gesture

It was confronting to watch, nothing mentioned about the deaths. One of our good friends was interviewed and it was very emotional to see.

It is a mystery why people were not given more notice of how bad the rain would be, the system came and just hovered over the catchment for so long.

We went to an 80th birthday party yesterday, many of the people were from the local area and were all aware of the many losses of lives, but still no mention in the news.

People that live there in the Lismore district know it it is flood prone and are usually prepared, but this was different.

Don't know AA, people are still in shock, I imagine the Gov is quietly taking responsibility for the lack of responders to the area.

You can see just by looking at it and how quickly the waters rose up how could everyone be saved.

We see catastrophic events overseas on the news but when it is close to home it makes you understand the fragility of life.

The rain just keeps coming in our part of the world. Another rain event of note looks to be coming this way.

Since the devastating floods in the Northern Rivers we have had only 15 days in 2 and half months without precipitation.

Apart from that only about 5 days of sun. Our district is waterlogged and horrid. We have had multiple people bogged at our place and now have to leave one of our cars without 4WD at the top of our driveway and commute with Mr Deere.

Please let us have the sun again, the horses in mud, can't put the in work crew out in the day paddocks, too slippery.

Having a big vent I know... But we are not the worst off by far.

YES please support Norco, an Australian owned company, totally wiped out their factory in the floods at Lismore, but somehow they are keeping all their staff on the books and paid, God bless them the bottle is half full.

The local Macadamia farms which supply 40% of nuts in this country are at a stalemate, the ground is too wet to harvest the nuts, they have had some good years but this one is not looking good.