By Sunday 13 March 2022 the Hawkesbury at Windsor had fallen far enough that most road closures were lifted, but the town still looked like it had been through something. Minor flooding lingered in the low spots while Windsor Road and Windsor Bridge — two critical links — stayed shut, with the road at McGraths Hill apparently damaged. Inspection crews were working on the bridge. Photographs taken at the same spot on Tuesday evening and again on Sunday showed the difference clearly: erosion, scoured banks and damaged vegetation across a wide area, and grass turned brown from sitting under water so long. The river itself was brown and carried a smell of rotting material, mud and stagnant water. Along The Terrace some households had lost furniture, and ruined couches and cupboards were piled against fences waiting for collection. The old blue flood marker beside the bridge remembers the June 1867 flood at 19.7 metres, and the list beside it counts at least 93 floods since 1799. The cleanup is a familiar routine here.
