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It has experienced more than 130 floods over the last 150 years but Lismore was left off a priority list to receive grants designed to improve its resilience to disasters such as the current flood crisis.
Rainstorms for some bring to mind the heavy sounds of water on metal roofs, mud puddles begging to be rippled by a booted footstep, and the quenching of an agricultural
Rainstorms for some bring to mind the heavy sounds of water on metal roofs, mud puddles begging to be rippled by a booted footstep, and the quenching of an agricultural
Premium Content Subscriber only THE current owners of the Book Warehouse in Lismore's CBD purchased the business in the days after the 2017 flood. Not the usual time for someone to step into a new business with water still lapping at your door. Although staff followed the flood plan of boxing up books and moving them to the first floor, the flood waters were too fast and much of the stock was lost and shelving damaged. It took six weeks to re-open. Fast forward to 2020, and the Book Warehouse will use a grant of nearly $17,000 to install a series of metal pallet racks to create a 'mezzan...