BRB, floods

[aelia]

Uh, so this is the creek -lake now, rather - that runs behind our backyard - kind of creeped out now! Dad reckons that the water came right up the hill in the 1974 floods, but it didn't get to the house - fingers crossed that this is the case this time around. It's still got to rise another three or four metres before it comes near us, but damn, what is this bullshit?

Our suburb hasn't been officially warned yet, but the one close to us has been told they're on standby for evacuation, and there's a few nearby on the same - several of my friends have been told to get ready to move, kinda stalking them at the moment to make sure they're okay!



 

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[aelia]

Aw, thank you! :D

We're all okay thanks, we didn't get hit by the major ones at all - the flooding in the creek (and the river down the road) seems to have been caused by the massive amount of rain we had, we don't get any of the water released from the dams, and the high tides didn't affect us. The water's gone down a good deal now, now it's just at the level it normally is after a regular rainstorm. :)

[engram]

Good to hear that you're all OK.

I'm putting together some stuff for donating (prams, a cot, a bunch of toys and baby and toddler clothes, maybe some adult clothes) but I want to find a charity that will just hand them over and not sell them. I want to give something to the families that lost everything and are not going to be able to return to their homes for months.

*goes off to do some research*

[aelia]

Ooh, that's going to be a hard one to find - the more people want to donate actual usable goods and clothing, the more the monetary charities get pushed instead :| I wonder if there's going to start to be a bit of a backlash against the usual charity methods this time around...

If you find anything that'll take and distribute the goods, point me in that direction?