As most of you have read on my Facebook the floods have been crazy but I thought I'd write something up.
My experience with the floods is no where near as bad as others.
I was in Kallangur in QLD at the time of the floods at Adam's house.
So the rain had been crazy most of December and the start of January, on Monday the 10th I went to work as per normal, it was raining a lot, but I didn't think it would flood and went about my day as per normal.
Tuesday morning I got a phone call asking if I could go into work early as the person who was rostered on in the morning couldn't make it due to flooding.
It was when I went down the road a neighbour told me the road was flooded and I may as well go home.
So work ended up closing for the day and I sat in front of the tv in shock and awe of what was happening around us.
We were stuck there for a few days living off food in the fridge and pantry.
I got rather creative making food from what we had, and enjoyed having the time to do whatever and not rushing.
Adam and I both got calls from work and was told to stay at home until Monday week.
We didn't have our electricity or internet cut, we were very lucky because many others did, so we played a lot of Wow and SC2, Facebook games, and watching the Tv waiting for the flood waters to go down etc.
On Thursday I drove from store to store looking for the essentials for food and such. But each store was the same, no fresh milk, not much long life milk, no eggs, no fresh fruit and veggies, not much fresh meat, even frozen meals was selling out fast. I had never seen the supermarket so understaffed, so empty of produce, but so busy with customers. No one knew when any deliveries were going to be delivered anywhere. Roads were closed.
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| Empty Milk Fridges in Kallangur Woolies |
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| Albion, the road i usually take to work. |
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| A picture of Coles Supermarket in Brisbane City. |
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| A road in Petrie! Smashed! |
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| The park down the road from Adam's house always gets flooded! |
I found that Brisbane people had this attitude of acceptance and understanding and tried to get by best they could. Everyone had an attitude - someone else out there is worse off than me. When I was at one supermarket I saw a lady try and pay for her groceries with eftpos, but her particular bank wasn't working due to the floods and she had to walk away with nothing but somehow she still had a smile on her face.
So we were warned to stock up on bottles of water, and the essentials of food, and get out what cash we could. Because no one knew how long this would take. And if it is heavy rain again before the weekend, the Brisbane river will just flood more.
The government did (and is still doing) the best they can, they supplied sandbags, and if people need they can apply for financial support, and there is so much money being raised its fantastic!
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| Moldy Flour from my house. |
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Even though its a massive disaster I still believe God does have a hand on this situation, so many communities have come together, so many awesome stories of survival, and to be honest the death toll is very low for what was expected. and such a great oppertunity for the church to rise up and help. C3BD is collecting frozen meals to give to people that need help during this time and I'm going to make some meals over the week, i'm so excited there is a way I can help too.
So today I have come back to my house to clean up stuff, it got very moist and there was alot of condensation on the walls and was very smelly. Not much of importance got damaged, This is a packet of flour from the pantry, its all covered in mould. Ewwww! Gosh I don't know if its spelt mould or mold, anyways u get the idea.
Lets pray the rain stays away for a few more days!
