No power and mould
Well, I find myself another night without power and another night at friends, borrowing power and internet. Sorry I don't have time to check on how everyone else on DW is doing.
I walked around Jindalee this morning, not nearly as far as Wednesday, but enough to check that the water really is dropping (I'd guess it was down to 6m this morning). At that level, it's pretty much only parkland under water - I didn't see any houses at that low a level. But the areas where flood water had been, varied from "hard to tell anything had happened" to thick, thick layers of mud and debris. Many of the trees in the boat ramp park had necklaces of branches and bits from other trees wrapped around at maximum flood height. And I am really, really bad at mud, particularly on sloping surfaces. I'm going to have to re-think my usual walking routes for a while.
Our power resupply update changed today from 6pm today to 11pm today to late Monday. I really, really hope that's an upper bound and not the actual reconnection time. Since pretty much all our other friends and acquaintances in Brisbane have their power back, we've been fortunate enough to borrow a generator, so we can run the fridge and a few lights and aren't dependent on others to keep recharging our phones.
We discovered today that although we were well above river flood levels, the rain leading up to the flooding has soaked into the concrete slab of our house again (I think the last such adventure was 18 months ago?) and so our downstairs area now has a mould problem. Friends are jumping to volunteer to help with the cleanup, including lending drying fans, and I'm incredibly grateful to them.
With the generator, we braved opening our fridge and freezer. The things in the fridge were surprisingly mostly still okay but everything in the freezer had thawed, so I found myself cooking an instant curry (on the side burner of our gas BBQ - worked really well apart from the mosquito attention) with the meat, spinach and peas that were going to have waited a lot longer, and in much smaller instalments. We've put the curry into containers and frozen it with our friends tonight so at least there's a heap of meals I won't have to cook over the next few months once we have power back and it's safe to transfer the frozen food home.
And of course the freezer and fridge got some cleaning-out in the process - we're hardly the only ones in Brisbane who've found ourselves spring cleaning in the last few days even though not directly affected by flood water. I'm proud of all the people volunteering to help with the clean-up, not just those helping us, but I'm particularly grateful to them.
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I walked around Jindalee this morning, not nearly as far as Wednesday, but enough to check that the water really is dropping (I'd guess it was down to 6m this morning). At that level, it's pretty much only parkland under water - I didn't see any houses at that low a level. But the areas where flood water had been, varied from "hard to tell anything had happened" to thick, thick layers of mud and debris. Many of the trees in the boat ramp park had necklaces of branches and bits from other trees wrapped around at maximum flood height. And I am really, really bad at mud, particularly on sloping surfaces. I'm going to have to re-think my usual walking routes for a while.
Our power resupply update changed today from 6pm today to 11pm today to late Monday. I really, really hope that's an upper bound and not the actual reconnection time. Since pretty much all our other friends and acquaintances in Brisbane have their power back, we've been fortunate enough to borrow a generator, so we can run the fridge and a few lights and aren't dependent on others to keep recharging our phones.
We discovered today that although we were well above river flood levels, the rain leading up to the flooding has soaked into the concrete slab of our house again (I think the last such adventure was 18 months ago?) and so our downstairs area now has a mould problem. Friends are jumping to volunteer to help with the cleanup, including lending drying fans, and I'm incredibly grateful to them.
With the generator, we braved opening our fridge and freezer. The things in the fridge were surprisingly mostly still okay but everything in the freezer had thawed, so I found myself cooking an instant curry (on the side burner of our gas BBQ - worked really well apart from the mosquito attention) with the meat, spinach and peas that were going to have waited a lot longer, and in much smaller instalments. We've put the curry into containers and frozen it with our friends tonight so at least there's a heap of meals I won't have to cook over the next few months once we have power back and it's safe to transfer the frozen food home.
And of course the freezer and fridge got some cleaning-out in the process - we're hardly the only ones in Brisbane who've found ourselves spring cleaning in the last few days even though not directly affected by flood water. I'm proud of all the people volunteering to help with the clean-up, not just those helping us, but I'm particularly grateful to them.
This entry is originally published at http://aquaeri.dreamwidth.org/81959.html. Please go here to read comments; here to leave a comment (you can use your LJ OpenID).
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