After the flood - the "buy back".
This old Queenslander style house in Lismore had already been raised above past flood levels before 2022. You can see that the traditional timber tree trunks, or stumps as we call them had been replaced by taller steel ones. That is a common process in Queensland for raising such houses to "new" regulation height (for instance common in Brisbane) so that they can be enclosed underneath with additional rooms and ablutions etc and of course garages if needed.
However, it just wasn't far enough during the 2022 record Lismore flood that probably entered this house which is not far from the Wilson River.
Post flood, many homes in this area have been bought back, meaning Government funds have been used to buy the houses, relocate the residents and in due course, demolish them, for parkland, never to be built on again.
After the flood - the "buy back".
This old Queenslander style house in Lismore had already been raised above past flood levels before 2022. You can see that the traditional timber tree trunks, or stumps as we call them had been replaced by taller steel ones. That is a common process in Queensland for raising such houses to "new" regulation height (for instance common in Brisbane) so that they can be enclosed underneath with additional rooms and ablutions etc and of course garages if needed.
However, it just wasn't far enough during the 2022 record Lismore flood that probably entered this house which is not far from the Wilson River.
Post flood, many homes in this area have been bought back, meaning Government funds have been used to buy the houses, relocate the residents and in due course, demolish them, for parkland, never to be built on again.