Six months after floods devastated the Victorian town of Rochester, around half its residents face a winter living in sheds and caravans as they rebuild their homes.
A further 150 are still in a temporary accommodation village in nearby Elmore.
Former mayor and Rochester Community Recovery Committee chair Leigh Wilson said while community members pushed ahead with recovery efforts, things were different.
“You can just see it,” Wilson told AAP.
“People’s habits have changed. My habits have changed, I don’t do the things I would normally do. I’ve changed.”
Three businesses have shuttered in the town of around 3000, where roughly 1000 homes were inundated in October’s floods….