Camden residents have had four floods in four months upend their lives, as rising waters once again inundate the southwestern Sydney district.
Born and bred in the semi-rural enclave, John Graveur, 60, surveyed the soggy Camden showgrounds on Monday, to find it submerged under five metres of muddy water.
"The showgrounds have been five metres underwater three times this year and three metres another time," he told AAP.
He has only just finished cleaning up the Camden Poultry Club building, which he voluntarily oversees, from the previous floods in April.
Overnight, mud has blanketed the freshly painted floorboards that he put the finishing touches on just 10 days ago.
But Mr Graveur, whose own farm endured bushfires and floods in the last two years, is steely in his resolve to wade through dirty floodwater and start the clean-up process once more.
That commitment, which he pays for out of his own pocket, is driven from his custodianship of the Camden Show.
The agricultural event has been running since 1886, bar a few cancellations owing to World War II and most recently the pandemic.
"You have to keep the 137-year tradition that is the Camden Show going," he said.
"You can be an Australian who does nothing ... or you can be a participant saving rural Camden.
"I've had a house fire, the pandemic, bushfire, four floods, so life's getting a bit challenging."
Rain is forecast for the rest of the week and the flood risk will remain even after the wet weather stops, with saturated catchments vulnerable to any falls in the coming weeks.
Premier Dominic Perrottet cautioned the latest inundation could threaten more people and properties than previous floods.
For Ben Geist, 36, who runs two businesses in Camden, the latest round of flooding has taken a toll.
Along with his father Laurie, they run a tennis club coaching local kids on eight synthetic grass courts that have been ruined by the rising waters.
"The water has gone all the way up the clubhouse roof,"Â he told AAP on Monday as the rain bucketed down.
"The top courts are three metres underwater and the bottom courts are about six metres.
"For it to happen four times in four months is unprecedented", he said.
"It impacts our staff and when we're out of action for four to five weeks our casual staff basically lose their income".
The scheduled school holiday clinic that was to include about 30-50 children is now cancelled.
"There's going to be a lot more sediment on the ground as opposed to the last few times where it sort of came up and down really quickly," he said.
"The hardest part of the business is you clean up and get back up on your feet and back to trading but when you've been impacted four times in half a year it's taken its toll on our business," he said.
"We could clean up all again and two months down the track it rains like this again."