Lismore vet Nick Jones can reel off the equipment he lost when his surgery was flooded with clinical precision – X-ray, X-ray processor, ultrasound, computers, telephone system, solar panel inverters – but when asked if he planned to reopen, he falters and his eyes seem to water. A second later his resolve is back, “Of course, there is no question of that.”
Jones, family members and friends have been on the ground cleaning the clinic building. He has owned it for 22 years. His father, also a vet, owned it for the 30 years before that.
