Hehe. Yep, Australia is roughly the land mass of the USA, as Vorghagen has shown. There aren't as many states, but each one is magnitudes larger than Texas ;-)
So today, I get to work and there's a meeting going on. Our office was to be evacuated. So, a little like the Russian factories in the face of the German advance in WWII, we packed up the whole show and moved it to somewhere else. For those that don't know, I'm a postman. So we had to pack up all the sorting frames, trolleys, night sorting equipment etc. There are about 25 runs in our office. Each one delivers to about 1000 addresses. That's about 100 stands and 400 shelves. All the shelves had to be taped together because they have hundreds of dividers in them, correlating to each address.Took maybe 3 large trucks to do. Disappointingly, a whole bunch of people suddenly lived in flood areas and went home, including a number of supervisors, leaving just a few of us to unpack and pack again. Our manager was no where to be seen. A previous 2IC came to help. He's a little dynamo that guy. If he cared, he'd be CEO of Aust Post in 5 years from now (the current one headed one of Australis biggest banks).
Our old office is right next to a creek, which is prone to flooding. The new place is a distribution centre. I took a rough guess and figured it has about 12 times the floor area of our old place. They squeezed us into a corner. Annoyingly, I've only just fixed my bicycle and was going to ride to work. Takes about ten minutes. New place takes about 25 minutes to DRIVE, so that plan is going out the window
If our office doesn't flood, we'll move back in in a week or so. If it does flood god knows how long we'll be at the new place.
After work today, there were just four of us left, and one supervisor who sheepishly came to help ( i suspect he got a little phone call from one of the big guns). In context, there are normally about 30 staff, 3 supervisors and a manager. The Soviets would have all pulled together. Of course if you were a Russian factory worker, the incentive was compelling
I rode my bike to the old place after work today to have a look. The road undulates a bit. The first part that was flooded I managed to ride through. About half a metre deep. The second one looked deeper. So I didn't try. Hard to say if our shop is flooded yet or not. It's about one metre above the road, but like I say, it undulates.
That's the fun news out of the way. Sadly, the latest is 12 dead, and forty something still missing. Mostly from the flash floods that happened the other day about an hour and a half west of here
Look how many cars go in that second clip! Also, that guy that saves his 4WD, isn't letting out air from his tyres, he's locking the front hubs. And whoever built that little footbridge didn't take any shortcuts!
Well, we had a blackout here for 4 hours or so, so I better post this thing!
Edit: nice big tide at 4am Thurs. There's a small chance my garage will get a bit flooded, but I live on the first floor. I've parked my car up the road a bit. It's pretty steep, just a couple of houses up is maybe 3 metres elevation. Yep, I live on absolutely the lowest part of my street!
City is a shambles. It's built along the Brisbane River. A lot of it is going under tomorrow morning. Panic buying already. I knew there would be. There's only one thing to do in that situation-join in! Shelves are cleared of long life milk and canned food. And even my corner store has sold out of bread, and no one buys bread from them! I was feeling smug about filling my car up yesterday, thinking it would last maybe 3 weeks. Of course today I find out I have to drive a lot further than normal. Will last maybe a week. I might be riding my bike yet...
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