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大洪水
こんにちは、今Australiaは先日までの大洪水で大変な被害を受けました。
特にIpswichとToowoomba という地域は死者も出ました。会社のオーナーであるグレンの母親がIpswichに住んでいるので、洪水が発生した二日後には現地に向かい掃除を開始しました。
現地に着いたときたくさんの人々が大変な状況にあるとはじめて実感しました。というのも家具のほとんどが玄関口に置かれそのどれもが泥だらけ。それに冷蔵庫、テレビといった電化製品も全て使いもにならない状態になっていました。
自身が働いているBrisbane Marketは今回の洪水発生地域でも最悪の被害を受けた地域です。市場全体に２メートルを超す水で覆われました。
冷蔵庫を明けたときの匂いは一生忘れないし、あの光景は本当に言葉を失いました。グレンは今回の洪水で車、冷蔵庫、パソコンそれにofficeを失いました。
この状況でも黙って泣いている場合ではないので必死に掃除を始め、ようやく今週の月曜日から営業を開始しました！お客さんからの要望も多数あり、それにお互いが助け合って復興していこうという想いを感じる事ができ今は仕事をこういう状況ですが楽しんでいます。
実は昨夜プレーシーズンのカップ戦『シルバーブーツ杯』の初戦Brisbane Olympic戦がありました。結果は2-1の勝利！洪水の影響で練習をあまりできなかったんですが、いいスタートを切れました！
洪水発生後のスーパー。
Ipswichのグレンのお母さんの家の周辺。
奥に見える川は水位22.5メートルまで上昇。
家の中のカーペットも泥水で…
efreshのOwnerのGlennと。お世話になってます！
これが一番始めの様子。
この泥が全てを覆い尽くしています。臭いし、汚れが取れない…
一つ目の冷蔵庫。
全て使い物にならなくなりました。
泥水の形跡見えますか？
泥水の形跡まで洪水は水位を上昇。
完全に見違えたような景色。
掃除中は各テレビ局のヘリコプターが何度もこの地域にきていました。
これは掃除三日目。だいぶキレイになりました！
QLD Floods 2011
It has been unbelievable since last week – as you might have seem on news, floods this time happened in Brisbane was absolutely disaster, especially area called City, West End, Rocklea, New Farm, Toowoomba and Ipswich.
My boss, Glenn’s mother lives in Ipswich so we went there to cleanup his mother’s house last Friday morning. When we got there, there were many people suffered from cleanup because they all needed to take off almost all of furniture and electrical stuff like refrigerator, TV and washing machine because they were all underwater.
As for Brisbane market where I work, it’s located in one of the worst damage area by this floods – entire market was more than 2 meter high underwater during the floods.
It was shocking view of the office in front of the shed when we got there because it fell over and all windows were broken but it was just beginning. When we open the cold room, all stocks were rotten, smelly and muddy, which we didn’t expect this horrible situation before we got there so we were totally speechless.
I really remember that the cold room was well organized, tidy and there were freshness products there but after the floods it was just total mess. As you can imagine, Glenn lost vehicles, cold room, all stocks, computer and office which costs fortune even though insurance probably cover some stage.
As soon as we got there we started cleaning up because we just can’t sitting there and crying, as Glenn and me always saying each other, there’s only solution. We need to work on it and sort thing out with thinking and hard work wisely.
Last 5 days, we did cleanup so hard and started trading from a couple days ago because many customers waiting for our products and they also need to run their business.
I guess it might be hard for both of us to running business for a few month but we will be able to recover from this disaster soon.
Due to this flood, we haven’t been able to have proper training session though we had first pre-season match called Silver Boot Cup at Brisbane Lions stadium last night.
We played against Brisbane Olympic last night and we defeated them by 2-1. It was actually good game even though we got some new faces last night. For me, I’m not fit enough so clearly need more physical training so that I will ready for Brisbane Premier League 2011.
Catch up soon guys!
