Sudokuaholics Anonymous 7

My turn?

SUSAN, I have often said I should bring in the hoses to hose out my house, but you are first to actually do it! What are floors and floor coverings made of? Can you just hose it down and let it dry and it will be servicable again?

Ally to the hairdressers, now that is one way to get the hair washed, till you can figure a way to do it at home.

I am off to fling food. I will check back later, and hugs to Susan, keep up the good work cleaning. Hope the fire weather moderated for Victoria. these weather problems, enough already! Even as cold as we are, we are under a red flag warning for fire weather. Wind and unheard of low humidity today "would mean any fire that started would be uncontrolable". Not comforting words to hear!

Hubby has returned to the house. Really must start flinging food.

MizT, what a lovely avatar!

Would have brought out my bright and cheerful sunshine smilie to help warm up the topsiders but I think my fellow Melburnians would go completely off at me!!

I don't think I am properly awake yet - need to go back and see what time I last posted and see how much sleep I've had...doesn't feel like much.

Can't stop thinking about last night. WOW...I can't get over what an extraordinary experience it was and also to be in the presence of such a man. If he ever comes out again I will definitely be going no matter what the cost.

Julie and Tricia - you are both looking spiffy with you new avatars...must be time I jazzed up another.

Suzy...good thinking taking Ally to the hairdressers. Hope the 'backup plan' doesn't need to be implemented...

Susan...please, not more rain...send out down here to someone who would appreciate it! Good luck with the clean up...I hope your family experiences no illness in the aftermath. Wish there was someway I could help.

Well done Lachie...you must be so proud Cyn!

My head feels a bit like porridge today...I think another 40 winks is in order!

Hi Sue and June...the only two lights that are on.
Have a good one everybody else...
Wish I could remember what else it was that I wanted to comment on.

Back, Ally feels much better with clean hair out of her eyes, and the hairdresser took pity on me and fitted me in for a cut too! Plus she didn't charge extra for Ally's wash!!

And I just missed you all... just as well because I have ffuts I must do anyway.

MizT, the walls are painted masonry block and the floor is tiled, apart from the garage part which is concrete, so it will be fine. Much of the paint is blistering. We didn't have time to take off all the timber doors, apart from our good front one, so will need to replace them. I just wish it would stop raining. I can't wash clothes yet.

I think you will all forgive me for being very p***** off about something. Images of a local person sitting on his lounge chair reading a book while ankle deep in water and all the family possessions underwater were telecast Australia wide. I was up all Monday night, waking the family at 4.30am to start lifting gear. Much of our stuff was lifted several times as the water rose higher than it has since 1967. I finally went to bed at 2am Wed once the water stabilised. Now that guy will most likely be eligible for $10 000 to replace his stuff, but I doubt we will. We won't pass the means test. Why isn't there an effort test as well????? His photo is on the Courier Mail website.

Anyway, life is still good! :) Now excuse me please, I have to go hose out my house. lol

Susan, do you have a power washer? That is something that increases the water pressure so that things need less scrubbing, I believe.

Good luck with all your clean-up!

Your indignation at the person in the photo is understood. Perhaps (giving a huge benefit of the doubt) the picture was posed and not really what the person would have been doing if no photographer was nearby.

Susan, I agree with how you feel. I would feel the same way. If you have a pressure washer, it will make clean up easier. Just be careful, it can pull the paint of the walls. Hope clean up goes well.

Hi Susan,
I didn't think of clothes! You must be getting close to running out of clean ones, and the ones you have to wash would be starting to smell from being damp. Bugger!
A Gurney sounds like a good idea - take off the bubbling paint along with the gunk.

SUSAN, reach half way here, I am holding out a super sized Fabreeze, a fabric odor remover. Clothes might still be a bit dirty, but the smell is gone, really gone, not just covered up. Good for carpets, rugs and curtains also, if yours are not so fresh now.

Tile and cinder block, yes, good deal, you can really hose down the house and back in business. Boy, water must have risen fast if no time to remove all the wooden doors. i would not have thought to remove the doors, excellent idea! Sounds like you know the drill and are prepared! Do you clean with bleach, to remove any really nasty germs in the water?

YES, there should be a test for effort also!

First my whinge (yeah, I know, my second today) then the bright bits. Just for fun, I rang the free number to see about government financial relief for flood victims. To get the $10 000 that's being widely publicised, you have to have less than $5000 worth of assets - in other words you have to be a renter and own one fairly old car. To get emergency relief (a few hundred $ I think) you have to be struggling to buy food. So apart from the unfortunate few who have had some really bad luck or sickness / disability and the like, only those who have made no effort over the years to budget etc. qualify.

But, I got a call from Suzy again!!!!! She told me her mum told her we're going to be given disinfectant and have to treat everything including the grass. I think the heavy rain is taking care of that though. My second great news...I got to do the washing!!!! Had hubby bring the machine over from the shed, and pumping out straight into the yard, have study aircon set on heating and drier going flat out. As there is the chance of further flooding, we stopped hosing out as it just won't dry. We do have a pressure cleaner but that's the second step, once we're sure it won't flood again. I couldn't do it twice.

Thanks MizT!!!!
Julie, I imagine the photo was posed, but he still allowed his stuff to go under the water. We would have had standing room only, as the lounge chair would have been piled with the smaller chair and the stuff that was on the floor.

Tomorrow if I'm really lucky, I'll get to go shopping! Up until today, we had to take the boat first, then walk to the train lines, walk up the train lines (rail lines are cut by flooding so no trains)to the supermarket then back home again. This is really making me appreciate all the things that I normally hate doing but am free to do whenever I want without much effort. This study is just too hot, have to go!

But not without a CP!

Susan, so wonderful to see you posting.
Understand how you feel about those that do not try to help themselves get the hand outs.

Hi Susan...so good to read your post and see that you are, as expected, just getting on with it. I would be having a big whinge as well in your place about that guy doing the sob story having done nothing to get his stuff above the water line.

Before global warming started to have a real impact on climate we used to have a flood in Deni every year when the snow melted. As kids we loved to be able to jump in the canoe and paddle down the street to the creek and all around the golf links... I laughed at the photo of your son and it brought back lots of memories... Mine of course were very different to my mothers.

We had a sewerage thingy in our back yard and the council went to great lengths to protect our yard going under and consequently the sewer being flooded like it has for you. We were eventually surrounded by a great big levee bank which stopped us jumping straight out the side door and into the boat...

Good luck with it all...you know we are all thinking of you.

Evening all! I'm in between bowling and singing practice and came on line to see if there was any info about what time practice starts - it seems to be a moving target! No news on that...

It's so great to talk to Susan. I use my free time on my mobile and get the latest goss!

Going to a BBQ tonight. Means I do not have to cook.

Have fun June! Glad it's tonight and not tomorrow night - if we get the forecast temps we won't want to be anywhere but in air conditioning! Hang on, I just remembered - I will be outside! Heavy sigh...

Hi, Bean, Suzy, Susan, Tami, MizTricia, June, and any others who have been on recent pages.

I was pretty sure you were right, Susan, about the guy loafing in his lounge chair as all of his possessions were under water - just trying to look at the more positive side of things, hoping he wasn't just a lazy oaf.

Are the high temperatures and humidity abating somewhat? I hope the threat of fires will reduce and some much-needed rain fall where it's needed!

MizT, did you hear from Heidi today? I'm hoping her temperatures (and yours, Becky's and Tami's) will be warmer this weekend. (Last night we had below 0* F actual temperatures, but they're predicting in the 40 degree F range for Saturday.)

It's after 2 a.m. here, and I'm fading fast. I hope to see you all tomorrow! Enjoy the rest of your day!

Oh Susan - I saw that picture on the CM website. I have to say I didn't realise, although I should have, that so-called 'flood relief' is only for the unfortunate (I'm OK with that) or the lazy bludgers in our society. Whenever I've heard of these Government relief packages, I've always assumed it was spread evenly amongst those affected. How stupid and naive am I?? Anyway, stay positive, my dear, your cyber-friends are here to support you in spirit even if we can't be there in person to help with the clean-up. Hope there's not enough rain to flood you out again.
Once again -

It's stiiiiiiiilllllllll raining!!!!!!!!!

Oh Susan more rain!! Hope that you don't get flooded again. Suzy forwarded me your photos even though I laughed at a couple of them I know it isn't funny for you.
In recent years there has been flooding in parts of the UK. In some areas it has taken over a year for some people to get back into their homes, having to have them dried out then plaster work stripped out and re done.

Hi Brenda, where Susan lives floods fairly often. If I understood her description of downstairs correctly - no plaster work! I hope... A year is a very long time to lose half of your house!

How is the snow around you now?

We had an enjoyable eveing but we can now smell the bush fire in the Lance Cove National Park. (Under control) Hate the smell of the burnt bush. We look over part of the park but there are a lot of houses between us and the park. The fire was no where near us. Could not even see the smoke.

So sorry to hear of everyone's troubles, esp , Susan, Heidi & Suzy. I've been off doing other things & haven't had to time to pop in recenely. Mary said to wish everyone the best . she is now in Whites Beach, Tasmania heading off to Hobart tomorrow, having a great time. Went through the 74 floods whilst living in Ipswich, Susan - so I know how much of a clean up you still have to face.Hope the next lot of rain doesn't cause too much trouble = All the best

Sorry, recently

Well looks like everyone else has gone to My luck nobody awake when I want to talk.

Glad you liked the photos Brenda! We are in a high rainfall area, and early each year we get most of it. We haven't had this much rain for a veeeery long time though. We've already had more this year than all last year in total. Our last major flood was in 1998, but I have never known schools to be closed for the full week. I guess there aren't too many areas of the world that are risk free of natural disasters. I'd still rather go through flooding than an earthquake, bush fire or tsunami! With that, I'm off to bed.

Went and saw CHANGELING today..
"Provocative thriller based on the actual incident in Los Angeles, 1928, that rocked California's legal system, 'Changeling' tells the shocking tale of a mother's quest to find her son, and those who won't stop until they silence her."
It is a long'ish film that had me riveted to the screen in horror...it must be every mothers nightmare. An extremely good film but not something you can exactly say that you enjoyed. At he same time it isn't a film to be missed / that will be forgotten in a hurry.

Son has just returned from town. Water has begun to flow through town again. :(

I am very sorry to hear that Susan.... I'm
everybody..it is watering day tomorrow...between 6-8am...hopefully catch someone after that.

Oh Susan, fingers are crossed that it doesn't rise too much