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I received the following message from friends in Brisbane - an interesting example of a community getting together to help each other out.



"I have been so impressed with the clean up after the floods that I thought that I would write and describe it to you all.


On the Thursday and Friday after the flood there was an appeal for volunteers to help with clean up on Saturday 16th Jan, the volunteers were to go to a central location where they could park and leave their cars. They then had to go and register and were allocated a house, building or area to clean and then they were taken to that location by bus. People not involved in the work were asked not to drive so that the streets were clear for the buses to get around and ensure that they were not held up in traffic.


Volunteers came from miles around, people even came up from Sydney, they actually had more people than they needed.

They spent Saturday taking all the mud, damaged carpets, furniture, washing machines etc. out of the houses and piled everything up on the pavement outside.


On the Sunday they asked for volunteers with pick up trucks and lorries to go and register and be allocated a stretch of pavement to go and clear and take all the stuff to a land fill site. Again everyone else was asked to keep the streets clear so that the lorries could get around.


So in just two days most of the debris was cleared although the poor people still have a lot to do to get their houses back to normal.


Everyone here was very proud both of the response to the appeal for help and also of how well it was all organised."

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Keef Wrote:

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> Heard a couple of similar stories on Radio 4 the

> other day, and it is heart warming. Have a couple

> of friends who have had to leave their first house

> together, about a month after moving in, they were

> still getting drunk for Australia day though!


Well you have to get your priorities right in life. In any given natural disaster, you should always find time for few cold ones.

Really daizie, silly comments like yours on such a subject really could upset some.


Actually I found my neighbor dead, yes dead as a doornail, her newspapers uncollected from the letterbox for days. When I looked through the back window there she was, lifeless under the sofa.


(I often wonder what was she doing under that sofa ?)


NO flies though


(that was a bonus)


:-SAnnette

MrBen Wrote:

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> The calm, gritty Aussie spirit in dealing with it

> all has been impressive. And in stark contrast to

> the shooting and looting post Katrina. Different

> magnitude but telling all the same.....


Wow, that's a pretty sweeping and damning statement.

My guess is that the gap between rich and poor is probably much greater in Katrina and that the levels of poverty would bring about that level of looting. Whereas I imagine the gap is far less great in Brisbane, so that people in the same situation are more likely to experience empathy for each other in this situation and help.

:))



david_carnell Wrote:

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> News from Katrina:

>

> *shot of white people*

>

> "Here are some folks hunting for food - the

> American spirit"

>

>

> *shot of some black people*

>

> "Look at those looters going into shops!"

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