NEWS
Aussie Flood Disaster = Human Spirit! By Anthony Kilner “We’re fine personally, but lots of friends and others are not… Murwillumbah, Woodburn and Coraki, these are low income areas, people with not a lot, no flood insurance, low lying. Houses are now wet up to the roof cavity, right up to the second story.
We contacted Adam Gibson from Parents with Questions to see if we could get some information from on the ground. Hi Adam, how are you and the family doing? “This storm has produced the heaviest rain I’ve seen in my whole life. I grew up in Queensland; I know what a storm feels like. This is next level.
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“These people have nowhere to go and what do they do? It’s an adrenalised response, community response and exhaustion is kicking in. Where do they go, how they come back from it, how will they survive it? Who knows? “What the hell do you do next? Clean up alone, God knows how long, mould problem kicking in - black mould, finding tradies, materials, there’s not a lot of hope. There are thousands of houses destroyed in Lismore alone.”
The Government doesn’t appear to be doing much? “Mate, I was on ground last week, tidying up, mainly in Lismore and Bangalow. I didn’t see any emergency response, no government response at all! Local response teams are great, other than that, no response at all. All major rescues were done by civilians! “I know the guys who coordinated that. His wife was home on the geo-locator app, finding people who were sending out messages for help, people saying, ‘I’m stuck in the roof cavity, help me’. There was very limited signal, by the way, as the internet went down. She went to satellite mapping, somehow she used IPhone, don’t know how she did it, she had people out in a tinny, local fisherman and stuff, rescuing. Unfortunately, there have been deaths.
