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ADAM HARVEY, REPORTER: In February last year, floodwater swallowed Leone Baxter’s front stairs and rose halfway up her walls.
ADAM HARVEY: In briefings and community meetings, Northern Rivers residents were told the scheme would buy, raise or repair around 6,000 homes – almost every damaged house in the region.So 2,000 buybacks, 2,000 home raisers, 2,000 resilient refits. Is that the rough numbers? LEONE BAXTER: The silver roof, it’s been offered a raise, or a retrofit. The house next door to it has been offered a buyback. The house directly next door to me, he has been offered a lift, or a retrofit.
SIMON DRAPER: It's all based on risk to life but there's really two criteria. One is the expected height that a flood would get to in the most likely scenarios, but also the velocity of the water, which obviously creates more danger for the occupants of those premises. The owner of this flood wreck though, is still here, still waiting to find out what might happen to his home.CHRIS REGAN: Oh, Hi, Kelly. How you doing? It's Chris Regan. I'm at 105 Crown Street, South Lismore. I'm just wondering, any possibility you could tell me when the assessment was going to happen on my house?CHRIS REGAN: Firies come at the right time, just got all the insulation out. There goes the kitchen sink.
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