Broken Record

I can imagine others are over this.  I know I am.  It just seems it is like one emergency situation after another at the moment.
I am very thankful that we have come out of things so far relatively unscathed.  There is no doubt the wind was the scariest thing.  It took ages to arrive and the worst of it being Saturday night, took us totally by surprise.    But watching coverage on tv and seeing roofs coming off and large trees fall in streets and onto houses I know it was ok here.
Last night it was rain.  It just went on and on.  We have a home impacted by Burpengary Creek, so we have watched that creek level rise to minor flooding and now it is going down again.  I checked our gauge just before and we have an accumulated total of around 200 mm.  That total is one thing, but it is how quickly we got it that gives pause for thought.
I have had to keep on putting back the putting back in place of everything.  I saw someone from Lismore say it normally takes a day to get everything up or out for emergency flooding and three days to put stuff back and open up a shop.  This is not a shop, but we did spend a day getting stuff away and imagine the getting stuff back in place will take longer.
That is when we can get started.  I think today will be that day but the latest warning is for a dangerous thunderstorm over Caboolture and heading this way.
One good thing though is having moved so much it is easier to determine what is needed and what can go.  We have been doing pretty well downsizing.  I saw a report yesterday that the accumulation of “stuff” is still over the top despite tough economic times.  Storge Units are thriving.
I feel like I have been here before in thinking to worst is behind us.  I live in hope.  I do think today will be the day we start to set up again though.