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Welcome to the Flood Diaries

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Sarah Moran & Dannielle Pickford

We were not going to be rescued until the next day—if we were still alive

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Things were going great then the flood hit.

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We could hear boats coming and along with everyone else screamed into the night for help.

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They spent the night there, watching the cattle get swept away, powerless to help them.

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They didn’t have a boat, so they bought one on Gumtree

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There he was our knight in shining wetsuit.

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The water was up to my mums waist in the top level!

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The image of water as far as the eye can see will stick with me forever.

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Soul connecting on a deep trauma that you know you unfortunately both share.

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The number of lives at serious risk in this disaster is of a magnitude I have never seen before.

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Our Story its Worth Remembering

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The building moved about 10m and got dumped up against a tree.

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The Read to Recover Project

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My two baby grandsons in a half shell blue plastic sandpit floating on flood water

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Mental Health Services hard to come by in Northern Rivers

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Life will not be normal for a long time if ever.

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If it wasn’t for these people stepping in, so so many would have died.

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It will be a miracle if we find it!

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It was a frightening and traumatic experience that no one foreseen coming.

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I was being induced to have my baby 2 weeks early due to the stress.

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I just needed her to know one last time that I loved her…

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I lost count of how many we pulled out of the water that day.

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I never thought I would see a disaster to this extent in my lifetime.

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When you ask where the Police, SES and Army were when it all hit the fan, have a look around..

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Even the best rules break down when people you love will die if they’re obeyed.

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As he was pulling her aboard the boat sank

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A week like no other – Michael Were, NSW General Manager Lifeline Direct

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000/SES weren’t there to take our call when we needed them but the community was

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A small rose still managing to bloom after being inundated twice in recent months.

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How does everyone start over and rebuild their lives?

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$1m to replace stock and rebuild.

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St Carthage’s Cathedral, Lismore.

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