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Hubby was able to get out and top up our supplies at Cooloola cove on the coast, still cut of from Gympie, town is cut into 3 most have no electricity and running low on fuel for generators and food. If the river does not rise more again tonight cleanup will begin tomorrow keeping in mind the roads out of the region including the highway will still be flooded till about Thursday.
 
After a drive into town for supplies and seeing the destroyed lives lining the roads, I have spent all morning working with son 3 to patch our driveway to make it usable, laying concrete in some places and bitumen patches for the potholes in the bitumen section. This arvo we still need to wheelbarrow road base to the lower sections to fill the canyons that have been washed out before the next lot of forecast rain arrives (4 days of further rain is forecast starting Thursday/Friday)

hubby has disaster leave to continue doing cleanup with RFS. He was second in command at the control centre yesterday normally at a local level they should have been in charge of 7 units max, yesterday they were trying to coordinate 40 RFS units.

At least little miss was able to go to childcare today and play with her friends.
 
Glad to hear the pressure let up for a bit but it must be awful for the people in the middle of it all to know more rain is coming.
 
It is hard to fathom the cleanup tasks needed just from pictures, the hardware store had no power and was running on skeleton staff as are all of the businesses that are still open. The piles of peoples ruined belongings stacked 6' high lining both sides of the road waiting for somebody to load it all into truck to be disposed of. It is hard to visualise 23 meter deep water flowing through businesses and homes.
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This bridge stands 23 meters above the river level, it wen under not long after this photo


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The Quad bike is an indicator of the power and height of the water.
 
cooler today, but I need to keep an eye on the weather, it rained again last night and if the forecast rain hits today it won't take much for the flash flooding to hit the roads again so I would need to pick little miss up from childcare before getting cut off again.

Today I have 2 textbook chapters to read looking at how "health" is defined and re read journal articles on public health policy before face to face tutorials tomorrow.
 
bucketing down rain again, just picked up little miss, water partially blocking road (flash flooding) so was a good choice to pick her up early, while I was there it came through that the schools are sending all the kids home after only reopening yesterday.
 
Trusylver said:
I would need to pick little miss up from childcare before getting cut off again.
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I don't know why but that just scared me more than all the other flooding news. Glad you went to pick her up early, even though she would've been taken care of otherwise as well.
 
Llama said:
I don't know why but that just scared me more than all the other flooding news. Glad you went to pick her up early, even though she would've been taken care of otherwise as well.
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Everybody is on edge in the community from all the stress, the government warning this morning to pick kids up from school if possible just puts already stressed people on edge even more, face to face for uni tomorrow has been canceled and will be done by zoom instead. Like so many others hubby said he just feels numb and son 3 felt a lot better being back at work today.

Little miss is fast asleep, I am not going to wake her for her martial arts class, kids can feel the stress of adults around them and not know why so going into town for a class with the risk of more storms is not worth the risk and stress.
 
made it through the two 2 hour zoom tutorials just. The think health one was ok, no real content just housekeeping for how the subject will run this semester. the Behavioural health subject also covered basically housekeeping stuff for the semester but the tutor who looked to be in her 80s and has been a fixture at the uni since it opened just droned on and on, I think I briefly fell asleep and was startled awake by her bumping the mic and making a bloody awful noise. I hope it gets better next week assuming face to face is not cancelled again.
 
I have spent almost all day wading through the ACE (adverse childhood experiences) study and the link to adverse health outcomes in adults including heart disease, cancer, stroke, Chronic bronchitis, Diabetes, depression and suicide. This fits in with this weeks topic - childhood development. The task of Summarising and rating the study in 400 words is complete.

It has been heavy going and I will need to re-read 4 chapters of the textbook before tackling a practice quiz sometime this week.

some of the psychological theories I am at least familiar with having covered them in the "introduction to psychology" elective I completed for the diploma.

I have not even looked at this weeks content for the "Think Health" subject other than reading through the rubric for task 2 which involves the horror of group work combined with the horror of a public presentation. Groups to be assigned by the tutor with each of the 4 group members being from 4 different areas of study.
 
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