Australia now set to recover from disaster

I Live in Queensland  Australia and we got hit with the 100 year flood this week yeah the last one was in 1974 so still working on how its the 100 year flood. but it was devastating over 75% of Queensland was hit including out place of residence. we are one of the lucky homes to be up but it did get to our street so still close,
Tuesday night 11th Jan.  all of Ipswich and surrounding areas was on high alert even getting a text message warning about it ( this was sent to all services addressed in the hit zone)

Water levels that night 11th Jan 2011

 tennis courts well almost to the roof now, end of our street

Wednesday we were cut of from over half our town and no power to many as well as no food shops available unlike so many we got money into our bank the day after the floods so missed stocking up on so much, milk is our hardest thing to find now and it is one of the few things Alex will still drink alot of  but I am just thankful that Hubby was sent home when he was as the road closed minutes after he passed and we would not have seen each other for 3 days and that Alex is not under going active treatment  ( but the hospital did call us to make sure we were ok for Anything Alex may need including hospital access which was no access for 30 hours + )

12th Flood day

our main  bridge it is now down to 1 meter over the bridge it peeked at 4+ meters over

near our place day after water peaked 13th Jan

we got to meet a pilot that has been volunteering with the searching etc he let some kids check out his helicopter Alex went shy but Robyn loved it hehe 14th Jan






yesterday 14th Jan we finally got some food not much to chose from but its nice to have some essentials like toilet paper and tin stuff to keep us going til supplies start to get higher when major roads start re opening. No mail since Tuesday either so we are still sort of cut off and hoping we don't see more rain

we helped out by donating essentials like soap shampoo etc plus nappies as we are now a nappy free house :), and all the girls old cloths as so many lost everything and these are not much but will take the edge off for them ♥  we also helped friends out a swap sort of we offered hot shower and power to charge phones etc and a washing machine use, and they gave us toilet paper to see us through :) we did offer the freezer but they had other friends that also helped them.


was not a good day to start seeing floods as My dad drowned in 2009 while Alex was undergoing radiation and chemo, and Tuesday was his birthday
just hope 2011 is now done with the bad and we all can start to look forward to the good :)

Australia was hit hard this week Queensland over 75% is a disaster zone, Victoria flooding too and Western Australia had fires the start of the week, so we are proud Aussies and will build back up how ever long it takes  we have Australia day in just over a week to look forward too also :)
plus Robyn's 4th Birthday next weekend but nothing to do now due to flood damages, so just a small family get together now then Alex returns to school on Monday Grade 1