1/194Lismore on March 31 last year. Picture: Darren Leigh Roberts
In pictures: Northern NSW floods 2022
The Northern Rivers was hit by record floods in February-March last year, which left towns and cities looking like a “war zone”. SEE THE PHOTOS
2/194A horse seeks refuge on the veranda (second level) of South Lismore FC’s clubhouse. Picture: Football Far North Coast.
3/194NORPA's theatre in Lismore City Hall in February 2022.
4/194Lismore on March 30 last year. Picture: Dan Peled
5/194A boat rolls through Lismore.
6/194Lismore on March 30 last year. Picture: Cath Piltz
7/194Lismore during the floods last year.
8/194Ewing St at Lismore on March 1, 2022. Picture: Stuart Cumming
9/194Lismore City Hall on March 1 last year. Picture: Stuart Cumming
10/194Boaties cruise up Diadem St at Lismore on March 1, 2022. Picture: Stuart Cumming
11/194A lizard floats on debris at Lismore on March 1, 2022. Picture: Stuart Cumming
12/194SES crews inspect homes on Ewing St on March 1, 2022. Picture: Stuart Cumming
13/194A rescue boat travels down Ballina St in South Lismore on February 28, 2022. Picture: Cath Piltz
14/194A rescue boat travels down Ballina Street in South Lismore on February 28, 2022. Picture: Cath Piltz
15/194Rescue crews drop people off at the Ballina Street Bridge in South Lismore on February 28, 2022. Picture: Cath Piltz
16/194A rescue boat travels down Ballina St in South Lismore on February 28, 2022. Picture: Cath Piltz
17/194A paddleboarder rides down Cromer St in South Lismore on February 28, 2022.
18/194A man looks over the side of the Ballina Street Bridge on February 28, 2022. Picture: Cath Piltz
19/194Flood water fills the Liberty service station on Ballina Road on March 1, 2022. Picture: Stuart Cumming
20/194Lismore on March 1, 2022. Picture: Stuart Cumming
21/194The Clarence River Sailing Club, Grafton during the floods.
22/194The corner of Through and Skinner Streets, South Grafton. Picture: Sandra Moon
23/194The Orara River at Tallawudjah Creek Road, Glenreagh before the floods hit. Picture: Sandra Moon
24/194Brewers Rd bridge in Nana Glen. Picture: Sandra Moon
25/194Duncan's Bridge Rd, Coramba.
26/194A cattle property near Grafton.
27/194Stockman Jonny Cowan and Susie McCallum moving cattle trapped at Braunstone.
28/194Ballina Road in Lismore on March 31, 2022. Picture: Cath Piltz
29/194Lismore from the air. Picture: Media Mode
30/194A shipping contain washes up on a front lawn in Lismore on March 1, 2022.
31/194Lismore during the floods. Picture: Media Mode
32/194Lismore on March 1, 2022. Picture: Media Mode
33/194Oakes Oval, Lismore on March 30. Picture: Media Mode
34/194Lismore resident Cristen Twomey makes his way to safety after being rescued from his flooded home in Lismore on February 28, 2022. Picture: Media Mode
35/194Lismore on March 2, 2022. Picture: Media Mode
36/194Lismore flood survivor Polly Campi pictured outside of her Molesworth St home in Lismore. Picture: Brendan Beirne
37/194Lismore man Allan Irwin speaks about a night spent cleaning. Picture: Brendan Beirne
38/194A Lismore businessman cleaning during the floods. Picture: Cath Piltz
39/194Volunteers preparing to take medicines and supplied to residents during the floods. Picture: Cath Piltz
40/194Lismore local Louisa Chambers and her partner Richard Maguire were rescued from their roof as floodwaters rose around them on February 28, 2022.
41/194James and Bek McCallum on their Braunstone property, near Grafton.
42/194Brandon Statham and Damien Lindsay in Coramba during the floods.
43/194Coramba farmer Eliezer Robinson.
44/194Grafton man Bob King.
45/194Residents of Skinner S, Grafton.
46/194South Grafton’s Ben Bail and Shane Griffiths.
47/194Mark Conaghan at South Grafton.
48/194Outside the Son of Drum music shop in Burringbar St, Mullumbimby on March 4, 2022. Picture: Liana Boss
49/194A Mullumbimby resident cleaning up. Picture: Liana Boss
50/194A Mullumbimby resident cleaning up. Picture: Liana Boss
51/194Mullumbimby resident Sasha Mainbridge outside her home on March 4, 2022. Picture: Liana Boss
52/194Cecile Dehant (second from left) and friends Lalo, Mathieu Carlot and Jonathan Richer, who were helping with the clean up at Mullumbimby on March 4, 2022. Picture: Liana Boss
53/194Son of Drum music shop owner Benji Keogh outside his flood-affected Mullumbimby business on March 4, 2022. Picture: Liana Boss
54/194Sheree and Chris Lute from the Yarrowitch RFS brigade in Wardell on March 7, 2022. Picture: Liana Boss
55/194Di Farrell from the NSW Rural Fire Service Wardell Brigade on March 7, 2022. Picture: Liana Boss
56/194Wardell on March 7, 2022. Picture: Liana Boss
57/194Wardell on March 7, 2022. Picture: Liana Boss
58/194Wardell on March 7, 2022. Picture: Liana Boss
59/194Bill Walsh, 69, surrounded by family friends who helped clean up his Lismore home after he was rescued from raging floodwaters on February 28, 2022.
60/194Just some of the rubbish outside Bill Walsh's Lismore home after flooding in February.
61/194Outside Lismore’s Northern Rivers Conservatorium. Picture: Lyn Mccarthy
62/194Chloe Latimer and Max Walker at Lismore. Picture: Lyn Mccarthy
63/194The ADF at Lismore. Picture: Lyn Mccarthy
64/194Wayne Kennedy and Donna Worley at Lismore. Picture: Lyn Mccarthy
65/194Tanya Poles at Lismore. Picture: Lyn Mccarthy
66/194Louise Poles at Lismore. Picture: Lyn Mccarthy
67/194Em Wolfe at Lismore. Picture: Lyn Mccarthy
68/194Labor leader Anthony Albanese and partner Jodie Haydon in Bangalow after the floods. Picture: Toby Zerna
69/194Mary McDonough, 93, is reunited with senior constables Ben King and Adam Davis, who helped extract her from her South Lismore home on a boogie board during the floods. Picture: Toby Zerna
70/194Coraki on March 6 last year. Picture: Toby Zerna
71/194Coraki on March 6 last year. Picture: Toby Zerna
72/194The clean up continues in Lismore on March 6 last year. Picture: Toby Zerna
73/194The clean up continues in Coraki on March 6 last year. Picture: Toby Zerna
74/194Premier Dominic Perrottet meets with Wayne Ryan in Coraki. Picture: Toby Zerna
75/194Coraki’s Linda Hawke and dog Bill sleeping rough. Picture: Toby Zerna
76/194Lismore’s Melanie James is consoled by a friend after she confronted Premier Dominic Perrottet during a visit to flood affected Coraki. She was upset about not enough help on the ground. Picture: Toby Zerna
77/194Coraki locals and SES volunteers Daniel Clark and Nancy Grimmare. Picture: Toby Zerna
78/194Lismore‘s Sally Flannery lost her van she was living in. Picture: Toby Zerna
79/194Premier Dominic Perrottet tours the Lismore CBD with mayor Steve Kreig on March 6 last year. Picture: Toby Zerna
80/194Girards Hill’s Aaron and Elise Taylor evacuated themselves and kids Nash, 7, and Finn, 4, on bodyboards. Picture: Toby Zerna
81/194Shop owners Jaishree and Saras Solanki remove damaged stock and furniture on Molesworth St, Lismore on March 4 last year. Picture: Toby Zerna
82/194The clean up in Lismore on March 4. Picture: Toby Zerna
83/194Summerland Christian College students Lani Blunn Sophia Su Saffron Anderson and Sophia Alvarez deliver food and water to people in Molesworth St on March 4 last year. Picture: Toby Zerna
84/194Planet Music throwing out damaged musical equipment in Lismore. Picture: Toby Zerna
85/194Planet Music owner Peter Miller discards destroyed items in Lismore. Picture: Toby Zerna
86/194Planet Music owner Peter Miller discards destroyed items in Lismore. Picture: Toby Zerna
87/194South Lismore resident Andrew Rose cleaning up with his daughter Gemma. Picture: Toby Zerna
88/194The residents of Lismore are in recovery mode after record floods hit the northern NSW town on Sunday and Monday with the Wilsons River peaking at 14.4m. A flood damaged shop from on Keen St in Lismore. Picture: Toby Zerna
89/194Journalist Cath Piltz was evacuated from her Lismore home. Picture: Toby Zerna
90/194Toy Kingdom owners Carmel and Carey Horner outside the Lismore shop. Picture: Toby Zerna
91/194Police Rescue senior constables Adam Davis and Ben King rescued a 93-year-old woman from this house in South Lismore during the floods. Picture: Toby Zerna
92/194Jon Goodwin, Ben Killey and Dave Preston drop in to Maclean to pick up supplies. Picture: Toby Zerna
93/194Annabelle Smith, 8, helps tie up sandbags in Maclean. Picture: Toby Zerna
94/194Dawn Saint is lifted out of the SES punt after being rescued from her house in Brushgrove near Maclean. Picture: Toby Zerna
95/194A man watches the level of the Clarence River come almost as high as the levee. Picture: Toby Zerna
96/194Lismore resident Harper Dalton in his flood damaged home in South Lismore Picture: Brendan Beirne
97/194Brands Pharmacy Lismore’s Greg Brand protected his shop by raising electrical wires and using aluminium on the walls. Picture: Danielle Smith
98/194Lismore Flood survivor Jahnaya Mumford with her baby Harlem. Janaya was nine month pregnant when she was rescued from her roof. Picture: Danielle Smith
99/194Lismore Flood victim Chris Martin was living in a shed until his family could can get back into their destroyed home. Picture: Danielle Smith
100/194Lismore pensioner Margaret Beddoes’ home of 49 years was destroyed in the floods. Picture: Danielle Smith
101/194Margaret Beddoes home of 49 years was destroyed during the floods. Picture: Danielle Smith
102/194Lismore flood survivors Debbie Grant and Clive Tressider living in their unfinished house at South Lismore. Picture: Danielle Smith
103/194NSW Police Deputy Commissioner Mal Lanyon talking to the Andrew Witchard and Doug Campbell from Essential Energy. Picture: Danielle Smith
104/194NSW Police Deputy Commissioner Mal Lanyon talking to the Andrew Witchard and Doug Campbell from Essential Energy. Picture: Danielle Smith
105/194Masses of debris in Lismore on March 10 last year. Picture: Danielle Smith
106/194Masses of debris in Lismore on March 10 last year. Picture: Danielle Smith
107/194Masses of debris in Lismore on March 10 last year. Picture: Danielle Smith
108/194Bianca and Steve, Cooper, 10, and Qaley, 1, gutted their home in the wake of the floods. Picture: Darren Leigh Roberts
109/194Marion Conrow of South Lismore was living in her contaminated home. Picture: Cath Piltz
110/194Jilly Witham in South Lismore. Picture Cath Piltz
111/194The clean up in Lismore in early April.
112/194The clean up in Lismore in early April.
113/194Dawson Street Lismore on March 30, 2022.
114/194Lismore flood survivors dump flood-destroyed possessions outside the PM’s official residence, Kirribilli House in Sydney, on March 21, 2022. Picture: Damian Shaw
115/194Elliott Rd in South Lismore. Picture: Jonathan Ng
116/194Natalie Skillings-Smith from Woodburn shared this image of her horses that survived the floods on Woodburn Bridge.
117/194Natalie Skillings-Smith from Woodburn shared this image of her horses that survived the floods on Woodburn Bridge.
118/194Geoff and Jennie Youll enjoy a drink around a campfire with family and friends after cleaning out their property in Woodburn. Picture: Jonathan Ng
119/194Natalie Skillings-Smith from Woodburn with one of her surviving horses, Centaur. Picture: Jonathan Ng
120/194Woodburn after the floods. Picture: Jonathan Ng
121/194Woodburn after the floods. Picture: Jonathan Ng
122/194Woodburn after the floods. Picture: Jonathan Ng
123/194Stewart Rofe 61, living in the construction site of his new home on Bank St in North Woodburn. Picture: Jonathan Ng
124/194Michael McNamara and his son Conner rescued 16 people from floodwaters in Lismore using their boat. Picture: Jonathan Ng
125/194Mullumbimby’s Brad Eggleton with his partner Brooke, their son Lucius, 3, and baby Elora, six-days-old. Picture: Jonathan Ng
126/194Dave Watts and Trevor Gaut of South Lismore. Picture: Jonathan Ng
127/194Johnny Kirin of South Lismore. Picture: Jonathan Ng
128/194The clean up in South Lismore. Picture: Jonathan Ng
129/194Jaimes Saul and Douglas Hume of South Lismore. Picture: Jonathan Ng
130/194Mitch Moore outside what is left of his home on Lake St in North Lismore on March 9 last year. Picture: Jonathan Ng
131/194Marie Hainaut at her Phyllis St home in South Lismore in the aftermath of the devastating floods. Picture: Jason O'Brien
132/194arie Hainaut and daughter Helene at their Phyllis St home in South Lismore. Picture: Jason O'Brien
133/194South Lismore in the aftermath of the devastating floods. Picture: Jason O'Brien
134/194Andrea Rufo cleaning up in Lismore. Picture: Jason O'Brien
135/194A car on Dawson St, Lismore on March 7 last year. Picture: Jason O'Brien
136/194The ADF assists with the clean up in Lismore. Picture: Jason O'Brien
137/194The ADF assists with the clean up in Lismore. Picture: Jason O'Brien
138/194Phyllis St in South Lismore on March 7 last year. Picture: Jason O'Brien
139/194Ken Bridge in South Lismore. Picture: Jason O'Brien
140/194Sammara Gerrey with her daughter Amelia, 4, on Diadem St in Lismore. Picture: Jason O'Brien
141/194Resident Arron Gerrey cleaning up on Diadem St in Lismore in the aftermath of the devastating floods. Picture: Jason O'Brien
142/194River St in West Ballina on March 7, 2022. Picture: Liana Boss
143/194Lismore on March 30 last year. Picture: Jonathan Geodhart
144/194Lismore on March 30 last year. Picture: Jonathan Geodhart
145/194An Australian Army aircrewman from the School of Army Aviation and a young child are winched aboard an MRH-90 Taipan helicopter near Lismore, New South Wales during Operation Flood Assist 2022.
146/194SES volunteers and husband and wife Nancy Grimm and Daniel Clark. Picture: Brendan Beirne
147/194Wading through the receding flood waters, Laani Winkler helps friend Kylie Gilmore clean her flood ravaged pub in Lismore. Picture: Lyndon Mechielsen
148/194Lismore after the floods. Picture: Dan Peled
149/194Lismore resident Eli Roth clears mud and debris on March 29, 2022. Picture: Dan Peled
150/194Kirra Jose, 10, (left) with a group of parents and their kids at Main Arm Pulbic School on March 22, 2022. Picture: Toby Zerna
151/194Cars piled up along Main Arm Rd in Upper Main Arm in March 2022 Picture: Toby Zerna
152/194Shafiqa Irwin and partner Alexander Heilpern from Wilson's Creek were hit by a landslide in their rental house in during the floods. Picture: Supplied
153/194Shafiqa Irwin and partner Alexander Heilpern from Wilson's Creek were hit by a landslide in their rental house in during the floods. Picture: Supplied
154/194Shafiqa Irwin (pictured) and partner Alexander Heilpern from Wilson's Creek were hit by a landslide in their rental house in during the floods. Picture: Supplied
155/194Labor leader Anthony Albanese meets locals in Lismore on March 11 last year. Picture: Liam Mendes
156/194Lismore dairy farmer Paul Weir’s property was devastated. He’s pictured on March 7, 2022. Photo: Elise Derwin
157/194Jesse and Denise Perkins in their flood-ravaged North Lismore home on March 5, 2022. Picture: Stuart Cumming
158/194Lismore on March 4, 2022.
159/194An Australian Army aircrewman from the School of Army Aviation and a young child are winched aboard an MRH-90 Taipan helicopter near Lismore.
160/194The clean up in Lismore on March 3. Picture: Dan Peled
161/194Max Moon removes flood damaged flooring in a rental property that he owns in Lismore on March 3 last year. Picture: Dan Peled
162/194Lismore on March 3, 2022. Picture: Dan Peled
163/194Grant McPherson from Maccas All Mechanical removes debris from his flood-affected Lismore business on March 2, 2022. Picture: Dan Peled
164/194Grant McPherson from Maccas All Mechanical removes debris from his flood-affected Lismore business on March 2, 2022. Picture: Dan Peled
165/194Lismore on March 30, 2022. Picture: Cath Piltz
166/194Lismore RSL being demolished after the floods. Picture: Cath Piltz
167/194A makeshift boat ramp at the intersection of Uralba and Diadem streets, Lismore on February 28 last year. Picture: Stuart Cumming
168/194A makeshift boat ramp at the intersection of Uralba and Diadem streets, Lismore on February 28 last year. Picture: Stuart Cumming
169/194Woodburn on March 12 last year. Picture: Tessa Flemming
170/194Woodburn on March 12 last year. Picture: Tessa Flemming
171/194Woodburn on March 12 last year. Picture: Tessa Flemming
172/194Broadwater on March 12, 2022. Picture: Tessa Flemming
173/194Woodburn Police Station. Picture: Tessa Flemming
174/194Ballina on March 4, 2022. Picture: Tessa Flemming
175/194South Lismore’s Rahima Jackson was living in a caravan and makeshift campsite. Picture: Cath Piltz
176/194Lismore mum Courtney O'Brien’s home was destroyed. Picture: Cath Piltz
177/194Bob Last of East Lismore reads a book outside the closed Book Warehouse on Keen St. Picture Cath Piltz
178/194Volunteers clean up in Cromer St, South Lismore. Picture: Cath Piltz
179/194Officeworks Lismore in February last year.
180/194Sandie Clarke captured images of her Casino St, Lismore home being inundated.
181/194Grame Purvis-Smith in Lismore. Picture: Nicholas Rupolo
182/194Cars in South Lismore. Picture: Nicholas Rupolo
183/194David Knight distraught after his beloved South Lismore Bowls Club was destroyed. Picture: Nicholas Rupolo
184/194A removalist truck overturned on Crown Street in South Lismore. Picture: Nicholas Rupolo
185/194Tony Carini, Graham Duff and Darren Duff escaped their Casino Street home on February 28, 2022. Picture: Nicholas Rupolo
186/194Ballina on March 10 last year. Picture: Nicholas Rupolo
187/194Empire Vale Public School in Patchs Beach.
188/194Lawrie Schache‘s River Drive property at Patchs Beach was destroyed. Picture: Nicholas Rupolo.
189/194Lawrie Schache‘s River Drive property at Patchs Beach was destroyed. Picture: Nicholas Rupolo.
190/194Sharon Coombs‘ Sneesbys Lane property in Patchs Beach was covered in 3m of water. Picture: Nicholas Rupolo.
191/194The clean up in South Lismore.
192/194The clean up in South Lismore.
193/194Adam Mazzarella on Uralba Street in Lismore. Picture: Nicholas Rupolo.
194/194The SES in Lismore on March 30, 2022. Picture: Nicholas Rupolo