When Jessie Cole was given access to the previews of Byron Baes, she had no electricity to watch them. When she finally watched the show she found there was nothing of reality reflected in this reality television. byronbaes byronbay nswfloods
All stories, even true ones, are constructed — some events highlighted, some ignored. Reality television, despite its name, is one of the more constructed forms of entertainment. Characters and storylines created by manipulative editing; drama manufactured where it may not have existed., a new Netflix reality “docusoap”, is out and I’ve been thinking about how it really feels to live in the Northern Rivers. Cue endless rain.
Five years ago, there was rain like we had never seen before. My family lost a cabin on our property to the raging torrents, its stumps sucked from the earth, the whole cabin lifted and smashed up downstream. The road in front of our closest bridge washed away completely and we were trapped in for days with no power, no running water, no landlines, no reception. Lismore and Murwillumbah were decimated. They told us it was a one-in-100-year-flood.
Two and a half years later we were in a drought so severe our rainforests burned. We evacuated due to the threat of fire, a threat we had never experienced before. My house didn’t burn, but others did. Suddenly, we found ourselves caught in this new rapid cycling extreme weather, pinging from one disaster to the next.
The roar of the creek below my house was so loud that it drowned out even the sound of the driving rain. In the blackness of night, I couldn’t even tell when the rain stopped or started. I lay awake, nostrils filled with the rising smell of mud, imagining landslides, imagining my house being washed away, imagining the trees in the forest around me falling.
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