Ex-pats see floods of tears after Oz disaster
Tuesday 25th January 2011, 2:29PM GMT.
A member of Queensland’s State Emergency Service rides a jet ski down the street in Brisbane, where Richard and Sue Schofield live. Their home just escaped the flood waters which devastated Australia’s third city..
A member of Queensland’s State Emergency Service rides a jet ski down the street in Brisbane, where Richard and Sue Schofield live. Their home just escaped the flood waters which devastated Australia’s third city..
Earlier this month, Richard and Sue Schofield’s house escaped flooding by just a matter of inches.
But elsewhere, people’s lives were left in pieces and the homes of friends and neighbours were claimed by the flooding.
‘We are all trying to get back to normal, but as I walked around the shopping centre today it was obvious from the people I saw in floods of tears that things are far from normal,’ said Mr Schofield.
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Yeah, those Queensland floods are unbelievable; not just the actual flood but the godawful mess they leave behind. That mud contains more than a minimum of sewage so just imagine what it is like when it gets into your house and into the cavity walls. I was living near Ipswich at the time of the 74 flood which was threequarters of a metre higher than this one. Fortunately there was no loss of human life in the 74 flood, but cattle was seen swimming around with snakes and lizards on their heads 12 miles out to sea. I guess the sharks would have fed nicely on them eventually.
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