Gordon Richards is still a bit teary. The night the 83-year-old moved into his pod at the Wollongbar Community Village, in the New South Wales northern rivers, was the best night’s sleep he had since he waded out of his South Lismore house in February.
In the week that followed, he and his daughter Debbie Richards, who had been his carer, moved around crowded recovery centres, including sleeping in the poker machine room at the Cherry Street Sports Club, until they were moved out at midnight when that started flooding.
