The Department of Education has delivered a new demountable canteen for Windsor South Public School, following storm damage to the old building in February.
The old facility also included a hall that was not used to its full potential. A new, permanent school hall has been constructed on the school site in recent years.
The new canteen was installed and handed over to the school three weeks ago.
The old canteen and hall building was damaged in a wild wind storm that lashed the Hawkesbury on the evening of Tuesday, February 18 this year, bringing down trees and power lines in numerous suburbs.
By the next day, a large amount of suburban Hawkesbury was out of power including 567 Endeavour Energy customers at South Windsor, 234 at Richmond, 1127 at North Richmond, 257 at Windsor, 714 at Wilberforce, 24 at McGraths Hill and 500 at Kurrajong.
The Bureau of Meteorology recorded wind gusts of 102 kilometres at Richmond between 10.20pm and 10.30pm the night of the storm.
The local NSW SES Hawkesbury Unit crew received 150 requests for help from the night of the storm through to the following morning.
Sarah Falson
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Daily Liberal journalist. I love telling people's stories. Get in touch at sarah.falson@austcommunitymedia.com.au
