A Tweed resident says 'the promises stopped coming' six months after flooding which exposed the region's vulnerability to natural disasters.
"Suddenly roads were cutting everywhere and the rains were still coming down," she said."Things were starting to get a bit hairy."
Ms Phillips said an evacuation centre was established at the Kingscliff TAFE as caravan parks "started going under"."There was just this flotilla of locals who were pulling them out," she said.People wade through floodwater at Chinderah on March 1, last year.Her house has been stripped and checked for mould, with repairs starting just three weeks ago."Our little community has come together and we support one another.
Tweed Shire Council mayor Chris Cherry said the day was about acknowledging everything the community had been through but also "everything we're still going through".Tweed Ski Lodge Caravan Park was severely damaged by flooding She said "there's no right way to do this", with some residents preferring not to publicly mark the flood anniversary.Mr Bugg said there was a lasting impact, with subsequent wet weather "setting off alarm bells" for some."There's a lot of people that are dead anxious when the weather forecast comes in and there's a cyclone moving down the coast, the social media pages, the chatter starts," he said.
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