I have lived in Mullum and the surrounding hills for 35 years.
Yesterday I drove to Upper Main Arm, to Kohinur, to visit a friend, and I have never seen a place so devastated as what I saw yesterday. Seeing my own house full of mud was traumatising, but yesterday I was saddened, stunned and confused as to how Main Arm has been left like this, I imagine Upper Main Arm is even worse…
To Kohinur the causeways are open, but the sides are still coverd in smashed concrete and tree debris, little pieces of smashed everyday things, and small pieces of everything, including cars.
Nobody could heal memories of driving past this every day. It extends into a lot of people’s properties. Their clean-up is overwhelming and they’re on their own.
Meanwhile, outside my property in Mullumbimby, Byron Shire Council (BSC) is cleaning up the sides of the bitumen with a heap of machinery and roadbase for parking. I also noticed Myocum Road got new bitumen this week.
Come on town! Where is the logic? Come on community groups, don’t go plant trees, don’t go clean up the beach, go clean up Main Arm!
No offence intended to any of our amazing community or BSC for the effort they have put in since the big flood.
For four decades The Echo has printed the stories some people loved, some people hated, and some pretended not to read. If you want us to keep telling the truth, the real truth, not the sugar-coated version. We’ll need your support to keep the presses rolling. 
