But they also welcome rain and a new year, which sees orders piling up and business getting back on track.

Just ask the team at Edwards and Froud, who are tackling all types of building work to help residents realise their dream home.

Or Barrie at Young's Mobile Hydraulics, who's been flat out as farmers ramp up production after the rains.

Cath Hawkins, from Peel Outdoors, has been kept busy selling and servicing mowers, tractors, whipper snippers and just about anything else you need for your garden.

They go to show how we have stared down drought, bushfires and a pandemic.

Read their stories and how business is booming on our leading industrial estate.