Wyuna at work: Members of the Wyuna, Kyabram and Tongala communities were all invovled in the sandbagging effort at the historic town hall site — supporting the efforts of emergency workers to the east and west of the site.
Wyuna and Koyuga became makeshift sand bagging sites during the emergency situations at Rochester, Echuca-Moama, Mooroopna and Shepparton.
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Hall committees at both the tiny district communities responded to the Facebook call-out, made during the event, which has become known as the social media flood, for volunteers to fill sandbags.
Sporting organisations, workplaces and individual community members descended in enormous numbers to the sites, some with very little notice, to support the work of the hall committees in responding to the flood events to the east and west of their own communities.
Heather Henderson co-ordinated the effort at the O’Dea Road Koyuga Hall, while Cath and Russ Pell were among those at the forefront of the Wyuna effort.
All hands on deck: Volunteers came in all shapes and sizes at Koyuga, when thousands of sandbags were filled in support of the region’s flood impacted homes and properties.
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