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The final wash up from a wild month

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It's been a month or so since we last did a memo. Even with the best of intentions and time management it simply wasn't going to happen. Since Australia Day our region has been battered by some of the wildest weather we have seen in a number of decades. Whilst the storms on the Australia Day weekend caused some havoc locally, it was the low pressure system about a month later that really did the damage. From late Thursday February 21st through to Sunday 24th the Mid North Coast copped over a months normal rainfall. Most of this falling in the 36 hours from early Friday through to the end of Saturday. Even as late as last week a small area outside of Wingham remained isolated due to a bridge being washed away. They only gained access in the past 5 days! 415 mm of rain fell in some areas in a single day. Couple that with winds exceeding 100kms an hour and it was a recipe for disaster. From an Insurance point of view claims for the summer had hit $670 Million even before