00:00This time three years ago, Woodburn was almost completely underwater.
00:07There's still a lot of trauma, and if you drive around town you'll still see that there's a lot of houses that still aren't even rebuilt.
00:14Sandra Peters runs a bakery in the town. She and her staff will be keeping locals stocked up before evacuating at 2pm tomorrow.
00:22We're doing bulk bread, so our bakers are starting five hours early tonight to do bulk bread and bulk pies.
00:28Thousands of Lismore homes and businesses were destroyed by the 2022 floods.
00:34Mayor Steve Krieg had been in office for a matter of weeks.
00:38I threw everything that I had into trying to protect Lismore, but I was made very acutely aware that I put the city first and my family second.
00:54This time he's more conscious of protecting his family.
00:58They live above his restaurant, which he opened in a new Lismore location after the old site was flooded.
01:04It was a gamble, no other way to describe it.
01:07This concrete levee protects the Lismore CBD, but in 2022 floodwaters went nearly four metres above it.
01:15The SES says it's preparing for the possibility of water to go over it again this week, but it's putting measures in place to protect residents.
01:24If our levee was to overtop this week, I just don't know how many of our businesses will be able to take that.
01:32Organisation Resilient Lismore helps to rebuild disaster damaged homes.
01:37We will swing into action as soon as we can after the event.
01:41This is something that happens in our community, none of us like it, but we know how to do it.
01:47Preparing for the worst, while still recovering from it.
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