Biblical Scale Disaster

[Shed101]

Looks like i'm working tomorrow, but am available over the weekend.

 

[Hatchy]

Mrs Hatchy & I have the week off for Australia week & were planning on doing a heap of bugger all but may fly up depending on whether the budget will allow it & whether we're likely to be useful or just get in people's way. I found this on the red cross site but haven't found where we can volunteer.

 

[DU99]

Volunteering Queensland this help..the site is a bit busy,
www.volunteeringqld.org.au/home

some of the members might need some help

 

[praxis178]

Mrs Hatchy & I have the week off for Australia week & were planning on doing a heap of bugger all but may fly up depending on whether the budget will allow it & whether we're likely to be useful or just get in people's way. I found this on the red cross site but haven't found where we can volunteer.

I think it's a come one come all type of event, more hands make light work etc. I did think that there was a link on the Brisbane City council website for tradies/people with specialist equipment/skills to put their names down on, but can't find it.

I don't know about accommodation, but someone will probably put their hand up to give you a roof or something.

I'll be heading down from the Sunshine Coast as soon as the roads clear and I can get to Rosalie where I have family and friends in need of help (haven't decided on which car so may have a couple of spare seats, if you don't mind the smell of petrol as I will be carting two petrol pumps and the fuel to run them).....

 

[DU99]

NO SMOKING to post above..Us australians are remarkable Lot we have our state rivalry,whose got the best,but we come very serious disaster,we all band together and help each other in there hour on need..

 

[Yob]

If it's a 19L keg it'll be one of mine

wasn't you on the news tonight retrieving it was it? if so Well done, if not... shoot the ******.. twice... sorry for the french

 

[DU99]

what brand is the Keg

 

[Siborg]

wasn't you on the news tonight retrieving it was it? if so Well done, if not... shoot the ******.. twice... sorry for the french

what channel was it on?

 

[DU99]

we are the smaller version in victoria..
http://au.news.yahoo.com/queensland/a/-/la...heavy-flooding/
http://au.news.yahoo.com/queensland/a/-/la...heavy-flooding/

 

[Yob]

what channel was it on?

channel 7 and it was a 50lt, couldn't tell what type.. I think it was washed up at a place called luggage? don't know the bay too well but I think loads of peoples stuff is ending up there..
[edit] quick google maps and I still dont know, maybe I heard it wrong, but was somewhere in the bay...

 

[Screwtop]

Im going to be in Brisbane probably from about Sunday/Monday to help the clean up at the inlaws place, not sure how much free time I will get to assist others but happy to assist where I can.

My inlaws are in Chelmer so will be in that area. Please PM me for my phone number and will do anything I can to help.

Jesse

Mrs Hatchy & I have the week off for Australia week & were planning on doing a heap of bugger all but may fly up depending on whether the budget will allow it & whether we're likely to be useful or just get in people's way. I found this on the red cross site but haven't found where we can volunteer.

Great stuff,

Any of you boys coming up here better bloodywell contact us so we can get together for a beer after the work's done :super:

Screwy

 

[DU99]

this is what we are


watch and listen..

 

[InCider]

Looks like i'm working tomorrow, but am available over the weekend.

Same here Digger. Got some tools, swag and ... cider of course.


We'll be there soon BrisVenice, hang on for your mates to give you a hand.

 

[Shed101]

Same here Digger. Got some tools, swag and ... cider of course.


We'll be there soon BrisVenice, hang on for your mates to give you a hand.

Ahem ... any idea where we're going yet?

 

[bonj]

While out and about this afternoon, surveying damage to swmbo's side of the family, I took some photos.

SWMBO's uncle has a Home Icecream franchise which we endeavoured to help save some stock in some scrounged chest freezers and a generator. He estimates he's lost about $2500 worth, but the kids had some fun eating a shitload of it before it went off. He also handed boxes of them out to strangers before it went off. It may as well be eaten and enjoyed by a few sorry souls while they gutted their apartments. No power for the 3 phase coolroom and no backup generator available.

The bridge in the photo was the normal way for us to head over there, so we went the long way around. Eerie sights on the way home as we took the highway. The Brisbane bound side was open, but Toowoomba side was still cut. We were passed on the opposite direction by a tilt tray with all lights flashing... driving up the wrong side of the highway. Sorry no photos of the highway as I was driving.

A couple of shots from the above link:

 

[Screwtop]

From the Gympie area, Bruce, Batz and I are available and Pete will join us at the Sunny Coast. Batz has offered to bring some eqipment along, but we still require someone with Daemons number to coordinate, need to know what is needed beside manpower, and if there are other AHB'ers who need assistance.

No good being like ants on a peice of meat with some on top pulling up. Do we need to bring mops/buckets, cloths etc. Can we bring/use generators and gerni's. Is there somewhere for us to throw a swag??

Really need someone to pick up the role of coordinator.

Screwy

 

[mwd]

Amazed at the speed of the Brisbane river when boats hit the bridges just capsized and sank and the big yacht just turned upside down right in front of the cameras.

Noticed the Police were cautioning people retrieving floaters such as gas cylinders as looters. God knows what Moreton Bay will look like when it all dies down.

Good pictures Bonj.

P.S. the weather forecasters are stirring us up again here in the north with Cyclone warnings.(now not expected to affect Qld)

 

[Yob]

No good being like ants on a peice of meat with some on top pulling up. Do we need to bring mops/buckets, cloths etc. Can we bring/use generators and gerni's. Is there somewhere for us to throw a swag??

going along the same lines, binging tent, blow up mattie (self inflating of course), lamps, a bloody shovel if I can get it on as hand luggage and going out to buy the family gumboots.. I reckon their may well be a shortage soon <_<

 

[tazman1967]

Safe and sound here on the Southside. Had no power for two days.. beer got warm ( TTLA Clone, so no dramas). My workmate at Ipswich has lost everything, only the clothes on his back. We had a wip around and raised some cash for him.
My thoughts go out to ALL Qld Brewers, as 75% of us are affected by flood. Stay safe people..

 

[browndog]

I'vew just been talking to Snow, he has a two story place at kenmore and evacuated as the water started to enter the ground floor after moving what they could upstairs. He and his family are staying with his parents at Indooropilly a few suburbs away, unfortunately they have no power there but are surviving comfortably. He has no access to the internet. I told him about what we happening on AHB and he said it made him feel so grateful to everyone, he told me he has been home and the water has resided and everything on the ground floor is a wreck, but everything upstairs is fine. He stressed to me that he feels so sorry for his neighbours some elderly, who have single floor houses that have lost everything.

I think this is a good place for the AHB posse to head if they want to make a difference. Snow said anyone who wants to help bring gloves, wheelbarrows, buckets, mops and anything else suitable for cleaning up.

The address to turn up is xxx xxxxxx xxxx xfor anyone interested, if anyone wants to get int touch with snow, PM me for his mobile. I won't be going as I still have work to do here, but I'm more than happy to put a few blokes up for the night.

cheers

Browndog