Julia Crick, the owner of a pub in a small Australian town, offered locals free beer, wine, and barbecue to cheer up after the community was destroyed by the flood.

The Julia Creek neighborhood in Queensland was destroyed by floods in February 2019, and pastoralists throughout the region lost their livestock that had drowned or froze.

For more than ten years, David Wilde has been running a local pub, known to residents as the “best pub,” and says he never saw his community so oppressed. On Saturday, March 23, Mr. Wilde from 12 a.m. to 5 p.m., having opened a pub, but at the same time closing the cash desk, held a free celebration, trying to unite his community after the tragedy.

Wild said locals had to shoot cattle that had been purposefully bred for nine generations. At first, after a long drought in the region, farmers thought they could breathe a sigh of relief, but due to heavy cloud cover and monsoons, the three-year norm fell in ten days precipitation.

Mayor Julia Creek Belinda Murphy expressed her hope that the locals would not spare the time to travel to the pub, despite the enormous work that many farmers face on their farms.