EDITOR’S LETTER
excitedly (forgive our youthful insensitivity) ask Mum if school would be closed tomorrow. Although our house was on a hill and we could always get to school, the kids coming in from cane farms in Broadwater, and those who lived in Woodburn and Coraki, couldn’t get to Lismore as the roads would be cut off by floodwaters. My nan and pop in Kyogle would pack everything up under their house and go and stay with my aunty and uncle. If the water rose faster than expected, they would lose whatever they were storing, and businesses in Lismore’s main street would have water all through their shops. There was loss and there was mess, but there certainly wasn’t the death and destruction we saw in February and March. People that I went…