Calston St Flood Part 4 - Community

The community spirtit has been great.  Starting with the way everyone pitched in and moved the contents of several houses.  Then a family up the street produced dinner for many of us.  Curry & rice and nahn bread washed down with a glass of wine and pavlova.  Then this morning an omlette. 

Thursday Dinner was a sausage sizzle.  Complemented with a rice salad and yet another glass of wine or beer or softdrink depending on your taste.









At 5:30 after the 4pm peak had not materialised and with the water out of down stairs, I decided it was time to start the clean up.  Chris (2 doors down) and ?? from across the road arrived with wheel barrows and we carted all sorts of wet junk out to the nature strip then they hosed out down stairs.  As they finished that bit, Frank Horky and a friend arrived and cleaned out the work shop.  I disapeared off and with Bob's help picked up Derek's generator.

Right now its midnight.  I have Derek's generator humming away on the back of my ute plugged into the house with a death lead.  The fidge is on its way down in temperature.  The TV is giving me a view of the rest of the city.  I have some fans drying out the down stairs.  Extension leads feed anything downstairs because I am not game to energise any circuits that went under water.  The ADSL is up - amazing since the phone line is so crackly its almost unusable.