Saturday, January 15, 2011
Calston St Flood Part 4 - Wendy and Daryls
Loaded Derek's generator onto the ute and Dick and I converged on Wendy and Daryls house at Jindalee.The downstairs has received about half a meter of water through it. The downstairs floor was covered in a thick gooey black mud.
As Dick used his high pressure hose to dislodge the mud the rest of us used squeegees and brooms to push it out of the door. Dan and Steven helped to moove it on out the garage.
Friday, January 14, 2011
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.
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.
Calston St Flood Part 3
Calston St Flood Part 2
Wednesday
The sun rose and I wandered out side. There were people (Adults and Kids) wheeling stuff on trollies up Manor St. I took my ute up and some strong lads loaded it up with chairs and wot not. It appeared that various houses at the high part of Calston st are being used to store all the stuff. Eventually I feel torn between working on my house and helping others so I leave the keys in the ignition of the ute and anounce that I am going home and that anyone can drive and I guess they did as it arrived back several hours later. At that time some locals came and helped move the two remaining wardrobed that had been too heavy for us the previous night.
With the important stuff (in my opinion anyway) up stairs, and at 2pm upon hearing that the water maybe much lower than originally prediced I changed tack and decided to try to seal the house. I figured it would be a real pity if the water only covered our down stairs floor by 25.4mm. So I taped up the door between Marcus's room and the workshop. Taped some black plastc (Thank you Frank H) across the back doors and then loaded it up with sand bags. Turned out to be a waste of time as the water leaked in under the walls. Also taped up the floor drains and put a plastic bag full of sand in the down stairs dunny.
With the sand bags in place and out of energy for carrying stuff upstais, caught a canoe ride to maccas.
Oreo looks on.
The sun rose and I wandered out side. There were people (Adults and Kids) wheeling stuff on trollies up Manor St. I took my ute up and some strong lads loaded it up with chairs and wot not. It appeared that various houses at the high part of Calston st are being used to store all the stuff. Eventually I feel torn between working on my house and helping others so I leave the keys in the ignition of the ute and anounce that I am going home and that anyone can drive and I guess they did as it arrived back several hours later. At that time some locals came and helped move the two remaining wardrobed that had been too heavy for us the previous night.
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Calston st Flood part 1
Tuesday
Left work early and went shopping. So did everyone else.
Frank Horky turned up and tried to convince me to move all the stuff to high ground. He was not immediatly successful but then Dick from work arrived armed with maps and after bringing up various web pages I am finally convinced that yes action is required, So we all go our separate ways to have dinner. I went to Frank Horky's for dinner.
Then the action really began and Bob and Paul joined in the the mving process. Eventually we collapsed exhausted with much of the big stuff moved up stairs.
Then the action really began and Bob and Paul joined in the the mving process. Eventually we collapsed exhausted with much of the big stuff moved up stairs.
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Discoveries Camp
Discoveries is on again.
There are photos on the web site and a note saying that they are all safe on high ground. The camp site is up pretty high so I imagine thay are all OK.
http://discoveriescamp.com/
Also if you have or know a kid on camp send them an email. The address to send to is:-
kids@discoveriescamp.com
They always love getting mail.
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I am supposed to do the canoeing activity on Wednesday. I may need the canoes in order to reach the camp site. Anyone got a motor?
There are photos on the web site and a note saying that they are all safe on high ground. The camp site is up pretty high so I imagine thay are all OK.
http://discoveriescamp.com/
Also if you have or know a kid on camp send them an email. The address to send to is:-
kids@discoveriescamp.com
They always love getting mail.
View Larger Map
I am supposed to do the canoeing activity on Wednesday. I may need the canoes in order to reach the camp site. Anyone got a motor?
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