Here is part of what I sent to my work mates.
My sister is a local just out of
Ipswich and there’re doing it tough at the moment.
I wouldn’t suggest travelling in the area unless you’re prepared to lend a hand for a couple of weeks and be totally self sufficient.
‘I‘d like to thank those people who helped me out (you know who you are) during the Qld flood crisis.
My sister finally rang on Friday, and although she was distressed, the family is ok apart from a shortage of the bare necessities.
Here are some of the key comments she made:
• No food, clean water, electricity, stock feed, emerging health issues and access.
• She said they were terrified on Tuesday night and could hear the sound of the upper
Brisbane River which is almost a kilometre from the house. ‘It sounded like a jet engine’ she said.
• In the immediate area, twenty homes have been destroyed and countless others submerged.
In the lower areas of northern
Ipswich, roads have been destroyed along with critical
infrastructure.
All of this is coming from a girl whose daily working life is gluing up crash victims on the side of roads. When she tells me it’s been rough, I believe her.
Being in emergency
services, she also believes that many victims will never be found, or only by accident in the coming years’.
It's one thing to see the daily reports, but another to hear the distess from somebody who is on the ground.
Cheers