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01-12-2011, 12:23 PM #1
I spent four and a half years living in Oz and my heart breaks every time I hear about brush fires or these floods. The thing that gives me hope is that, if there ever were a people who could keep smiling while all this disaster is going on, and then smile all the way through the reconstruction, it's Aussies. Nothing gets you down for long.
You're in our prayers and our thoughts. Aussie, Aussie, Aussie!
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01-12-2011, 07:36 PM #2
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Thanked: 94Just been speaking to my cousin who is on the old family farm in the Lockyer Valley. On Tuesday they got 14 inches of rain in 10 hours.
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01-12-2011, 09:52 PM #3
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Thanked: 203Hi Guys,
thanks for the thoughts. i am lucky where i am that it can't really flood - high ground. That said, my workshop is downstairs and the run off has meant that it is flooded from 1/4 to 1/2 inch deep for several days now and on and off for the last two months. Not a huge problem but the damp and smell are bad, mould setting in and my production has been stopped as i wasn't dealing too well with too much time in that damp. Really not an issue compared to so many others.
The long term effects will be hard. Already the hospital i work in as my day job has cancelled all operations and staff are being rostered off, so income is being affected for many of us.
Supplies and food will be issues for a while and we are expecting another big dump of rain around Australia Day from a cyclone forming at present.
Aussie spirit will triumph as always, though. Just compare how quick we bounce back compared to the poor souls in Haiti last year, or the tsunami affected ares a few years before that. We really are the lucky country.
i am not online much at present (well nothing new there ) but i also hope that others of our forum in Queensland are doing okay.
Best Wishes for AllRespectfully,
Adam.
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01-13-2011, 12:25 AM #4
Geezus squeezus. That's all you guys need, a bloody cyclone
Mould is a problem even in Sydney with the rain we've had.
Bloke in the hardware store recommended 80/20 vinegar to water mix & a good scrubbing brush.
Works well.Last edited by onimaru55; 01-13-2011 at 12:29 AM.
“The white gleam of swords, not the black ink of books, clears doubts and uncertainties and bleak outlooks.”
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01-13-2011, 12:58 AM #5
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Thanked: 1072Hope things get better soon guys.
Grant"I aint like that no more...my wife, she cured me of drinking and wickedness"
Clint Eastwood as William Munny in Unforgiven
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01-13-2011, 07:44 AM #6
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Thanked: 983Well my ability to log on has been a bit patchy as Oz and Don know. What has been the cause, I have know idea, but we remained dry here so far, and I don't foresee that we will get wet. If the rain hadn't have stopped when it did, I would be putting the floaties on to come and type this I reckon. A lot of people are having a tough time of it right now. Going to be a long, long time before everything gets sorted out.
Myself personally, I want to go to Toowoomba to see how my friends and family there fared. One of my friends was seconds from the wall of water that wet through there and he never even knew it till his ex called him to see if the kids were safe. He'd just picked them up and was on his way home when it went by behind him, with him being totally oblivious to the fact. She saw it all coming and ended up trapped in a second level carpark.
Getting there won't be happening for some time though.
MickLast edited by MickR; 01-13-2011 at 08:03 AM. Reason: spell check
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01-13-2011, 07:49 AM #7
Good to see ya back online Mick. Yer mate should buy a lotto ticket
Are phone lines & cell towers down. Any news from Toowomba at all ?“The white gleam of swords, not the black ink of books, clears doubts and uncertainties and bleak outlooks.”