Julie KeastThe Weekend Carnage Wrap Up
Well as you all know by now that there was major carnage around the NSW Coast especially around Newcastle, Lake Macquarie, Hunter Valley and around the Central Coast during the June Long Weekend due to all the storm carnage.
I got to say that I was lucky, apart from my shoes, socks and the legs of my trousers getting wet in water that was covering the main road at Mayfield (an inner suburb of Newcastle) on Friday) I was extremely lucky, I didn't lose electricity, my house wasn't flooded or anything else like that because my house is located on the side of a hill so no floodwater can get in and compared to the stories I have heard from some of my friends and others in worse affected areas, one friend I spoke to, the bottom level of her two level house had water go through it while another friend had gone shopping at Jesmond, caught the bus, the bus couldn't go along it's original route because of flash flooding, got off the bus, hitched a ride with a couple in order to get home but couldn't so she spent the night at this couple's house...it has been quite an extraodinary weekend for so many reasons but i have to say compared with my friends and hearing other stories on the radio over the long weekend, my story is quite boring, Basically what happened to me is that I was at work and that my boss sent me home early from work but I had to walk through a car park of ankle deep water (which is nothing compared to swimming through neck deep water), I had to walk over and get something at Woolworths which is across the other side of the road meaning that I had to walk through another lot of ankle deep water just to get across the road.
Anyway I got home safely but as you can see my story is pretty tame.
If you are in the areas affected, have electricity and wish to share how you spent the Long Weekend from Nightmareville then drop a comment.
Anyway that's all for now so tata cyaz
I got to say that I was lucky, apart from my shoes, socks and the legs of my trousers getting wet in water that was covering the main road at Mayfield (an inner suburb of Newcastle) on Friday) I was extremely lucky, I didn't lose electricity, my house wasn't flooded or anything else like that because my house is located on the side of a hill so no floodwater can get in and compared to the stories I have heard from some of my friends and others in worse affected areas, one friend I spoke to, the bottom level of her two level house had water go through it while another friend had gone shopping at Jesmond, caught the bus, the bus couldn't go along it's original route because of flash flooding, got off the bus, hitched a ride with a couple in order to get home but couldn't so she spent the night at this couple's house...it has been quite an extraodinary weekend for so many reasons but i have to say compared with my friends and hearing other stories on the radio over the long weekend, my story is quite boring, Basically what happened to me is that I was at work and that my boss sent me home early from work but I had to walk through a car park of ankle deep water (which is nothing compared to swimming through neck deep water), I had to walk over and get something at Woolworths which is across the other side of the road meaning that I had to walk through another lot of ankle deep water just to get across the road.
If you are in the areas affected, have electricity and wish to share how you spent the Long Weekend from Nightmareville then drop a comment.
Nozzin' Aroun'
I spent a couple of years in Morpeth when I was growing up in the 1980s and fortunately never saw a flood - although every telegraph pole had indicators of the 1955 flood level.
The sandbaggers and everyone else did a fantastic job to reduce the damage this time and well done to them. There's a fantastic community spirit up that way, and once again everyone came together in a great way to save their town.
Fun Facts
It's always good to get rain these days with the drought and all, but it makes you wonder why we always have to get so much all at once when we do.