Klarinet Archive - Posting 000113.txt from 2011/01

From: "Peter Gentry" <peter.gentry@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Brisbane Flood devastation
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 08:24:59 -0500

You have our thoughts - the problems with flooding tend to increase with
time. It will take more than a year to get back to something approaching
normality. Things here in Cumbria are not fully back in place after the 2009
flood which was tiny in extent compared with the floods in Oz and elsewhere.

Everyone pulls together at the start but the stress and strains of
rebuilding and fights with foot dragging insurance companies take their toll
over the months and years.

There is nothing we can offer but sympathy - we understand that is all we
can offer.

Good luck

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kathy Williams-DeVries [mailto:kathleenwilliams76@-----.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 11:00 AM
> To: klarinet@-----.com
> Subject: [kl] Brisbane Flood devastation
>
> Hi Mark
>
>
>
> I'm not sure how the Gabba fared, I know the power was cut, but Lang Park
> and the XXXX brewery went well under! Some bright spark put a set of
> goggles, snorkel and floaties on the statue of King Wally outside the
> ground. Brisbane had plenty of warning, but the poor buggers up the
> Lockyer
> Valley had no chance. An inland Tsunami hit Toowoomba and Grantham before
> going down the valley, they are still pulling bodies out of the wreckage.
>
>
>
> They were moving the pianos and such from the ground floor of the Con,
> I'll
> bet the Con Theatre went under and the orchestral hall I imagine. We are
> told not to make unessential travel, so I don't know how the Con went. Of
> course, the whole arts precinct was built on the River, Ferry Road Studios
> for QSO, Con, State Library Art Gallery, GOMA, College of Art, Piazza, and
> the foundations for the new ABC studios to replace the ones in Toowong.
>
>
>
> But being Queenslanders, you know we'll bounce back!
>
>
>
> Regards, Kathy
>
>
>
> Glad you're OK Kathy - it's very weird watching the devastation from the
>
> other side of the planet. I imagine my old flat near the Gabba is largely
>
> underwater...
>
>
>
> Was there enough warning in Brisbane to move things out of harm's way? I
>
> guess the lower floors of the Queensland Conservatorium are completely
>
> flooded - I wonder how the library is?
>
>
>
> Mark
>
>
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> Kathy Williams-DeVries
>
> BMusPerf (Hons)
>
> Grad Dip Arts (Shakespeare Studies)
>
> ATCL, LTCL
>
> 0404946839
>
> www.kathywilliams76.com
>
>
>
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