Of evacuation, flood and cleaning

It's been a week since the flood water had gone down. Luckily the water level wasn't as high as they expected or else the effect would have been worst. Even with 4.46m high during peak time the damage was disastrous. The houses that were affected were covered with mud after the water had gone down.

The cleaning was another issue. Luckily the people here have a very big heart. Volunteers from everywhere came to help strangers in need without any boundaries. The came all geared up with gumboots and cleaning equipments, helping the affected people clean their house. It's a different sight compared to Malaysia. They even had to send the volunteers back home as they were too many of them and not enough jobs. Its surprising to see Islamic values in a non Islamic communities. 

The street looked like a dumpster last weekend as people threw their furniture and personal items on the kerbside waiting for the council the pick them up and threw them somewhere. I wonder where the council threw all of the stuff as there's so many of them. Even for one street there's mountain of stuff, I wonder how the pile would be overall. To help with the clean-up, the government gave free public transport to the people within South east Queensland. They want to reduce the traffic on the streets which will fasten the cleaning process. But the cleaning up process was quick. Within three days the roads were cleaned and opened as usual.

 I'd found on Youtube from one of the volunteer.  You can see from the video how high the water went up during the flood and the aftermath. This video was taken in St Lucia, which is the place where I'm staying; which is close to UQ.