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People are already talking about the invisible impacts on psychological health.

In many instances there are families who have been dealing with a seven-year drought. Their financial lives have been on the line every day of those seven years. In many cases they will have raked up hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt, a lot of it spent buying feed and supplements to keep their cattle alive.

And then rain started, but it didn’t stop. Within days some had lost up to 90 per cent or more of those very same cattle they have been struggling to keep alive for all those years.

What will these people do? How will they recover financially? The expectation is that it will be the end of the line financially for some of these landholders.

And then the final question is how they will adjust mentally to this sudden, cataclysmic change in the lives. That is the question, right now, everyone is afraid to answer.