Postby Tarquin » Wed Jan 12, 2011 11:13 pm
Just to let you know and give you my perspective.....
Damo, 'Xciting' - Our XR5 comrade - he and his g/f are currently sandbagged into their ground floor Bulimba Apartment, waiting on the floodpeak at 4am.... They have an upstairs/downstair unit, so have moved everything up a level - but are still expecting it to be lapping at their door, or worse.... They're in for a long night.
We were one of the lucky ones at Morayfield yesterday, as our house is high in the estate, but the access into it via Walkers Rd and Settlement Rd were cut off yesterday afternoon.
I bailed from work in the city about 1pm, and trains were being cut back down the line, and ended up being stopped at Bald Hills with all the destruction from the Pine River ahead.
The wife and kids got collected by some family of ours and they went and rescued the CJ from Petrie station. They got out to Kippa Ring to family's place.
Not having a way to reach them, or for them to get to me, I jumped trains at Northgate and got picked up at Sandgate by some other Redcliffe family...
We stayed the night there, and returned today after the water receeded....
I'll be attempting to get back to work tomorrow at the Mater Hospital, so am hoping the trains are still running, and that Brisbane is still there...
Good Luck Brisbane - our thoughts are with all of you.
You can replace 'Stuff' - you can't replace 'You'
....... not really but still sad about that
