Arrived home safely from the QLD flood relief work

We all arrived home safely late last night,

In our week in QLD we managed to clean up 9 houses which was hard work and long days.

when you consider there were over 14000 homes effected by water, it is a huge

task cleaning up QLD and is going to take some time.

Some of the area's we went to had not been touched yet as no one had got to them.

Our last couple of days we where at a place called Booval North, driving into this street

was so heart breaking it was like we had left Australia and we where in another country.

We met a guy who was the bar manager at the Plainlands Hotel, Matt decided to come and help for a day, he was upset at the devastation, so close to where he lived.

This whole estate was under water in the flood not one house was spared.

One of the houses we cleaned in this area hadn't been touched we had to go in and

just start peeling the walls a ceiling off.

Under some of the walls that had been built the kids that lived there when 

they built the walls had written there name there like a time capsule.

To describe the estate we where in was like Horsley or Albion Park, and the

whole place was under water, it looked like a war zone, the Army had just moved in to

start help with the clean up army trucks everywhere, black hawk and sea king helicopters buzzing over your

head all day.

There is also countless people driving or walking around bringing food and drinks to people

working in the area, these people are making it them selves and just feeding the army of volunteers.

Here are some pictures of the houses we cleaned while we where away the some of the pile

of rubbish in the last place where we spent 3 days.

This is one of the houses we striped everything out.

This house was completely under water, over the roof.

This is a picture looking down the street, still more rubbish to be cleaned, every house in this street got flooded.

Another street a block away again every house was under water.

This is a house just striped of its walls and ceiling gyp rock everywhere.

Another house we had to strip the walls and ceiling in.

These skips bin where everywhere driving into the estate, they needed more then they had.

This is a picture again of the bin on the roof of a 2 storey house check the picture below.

This is the bin that was on the roof of the house, look how big it is next to Reg.

 If you look at this photo, just left and above the give way sign you will see a park bench.

 The lady of this house was rescued of the roof by rescue boat, we removed the walls from this house as well.

Darren donating all the equipment to the people we had been working for as we where leaving the next day
The group we worked for where Global Care, they where very happy with our assistance
and the donation of all the products we gave them.
Thank you to the people who helped, and the people who helped while we where away.
Also check the local advertiser, Lake Times and the Kiama independent
as we had a reporter from Wollongong find us ans spend the day with us.

I truly hope that this flooding never happens again, the QLD people have some much rebuilding ahead of them.