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Ravaging floods impact businesses In late February-early March, small businesses were affected by unprecedented and devastating heavy rain across northern New South Wales and Queensland. Flooding is one of the largest expenses to businesses, resulting in lost productivity, reduced working hours and losses with resources targeted to recovery efforts. Small businesses not only suffered immediate damage, but also had to manage the prospect of power outages, transport restrictions, loss of customers and/or key staff and disrupted communications.
Flooding caused significant and sustained disruption to many areas, impacting the continuity of many business operations. This natural disaster affected small businesses and workers, once again facing great uncertainty with business costs and employee financial hardships. It can take months for business recovery to occur in these floodimpacted areas.
Hundreds of thousands evacuated in NSW On 3 March, more than half a million people in New South Wales were subject to SES issued evacuation orders or
warnings. Heavy rain and floodwater caused the Hawkesbury River at North Richmond Bridge to breach its banks and cut many roads. NSW experienced unprecedented rain bomb events sustained over several days which led to “dangerous and life-threatening” flooding. Helicopters were engaged to drop off food and supplies to evacuation centres. Torrential rain and flash flooding were also experienced in Newcastle, Hunter, and suburbs such as Shanes Park, Mulgrave, Holsworthy, Londonderry, Vineyard, Picnic Point, East Hills, and South Maroota. People in parts of
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