So I have been absent from Plinky for a rather long period of time... Actually not as long as it may appear from this... I have stated to write on a number of occasions either to get distracted or lose focus of what I was talking about... A solid effort when you think about how disjointed my writing is anyway. But I wont post something I feel is incomplete.
Which is why I should get today's topic. Have you ever experiences an earthquake, flood, or other natural disaster? Somebody has clearly been watching the news recently... Scores of people with have fresh and interesting natural disaster stories at the moment...
Unless you live in South Australia - apparently nothing interesting ever happens here. I'm not from here though so I do have some answers to this question. First off no earthquakes - though once during school we experienced something like an earthquake - caused by an airforce plane breaking the sound barrier too close to the ground. Needless to say while largely harmless the government was in an awkward position of responsibility for a large number of broken windows
But as I pointed out that was caused by a plane - therefore not able to be classified as a natural disaster to answer this question. So like every other Queenslander I am going to go with the standard issue tropical cyclone / flood answer. I'm just going to elaborate on which ones...
Most recently of course were the floods in Brisbane just last month... I'm not from Brisbane but our area had floods caused by our own river system just the same. Unlike Brisbane ours was worse than the 74 floods... yeah take that Brisbane. Thankfully however water flowed quickly and once it peaked the water was almost completely gone in 24 hours...
To my own personal experience - thankfully no flood waters threatening to wipe my house away. I'm not going to pretend to understand how that must have felt. For us we only had to worry about the downpour threatening to flash flood our house because it wasn't flowing down to the river quick enough. And the fact that with roads cut in both directions we were a little island - who was recieving mixed messages about how high the waters were supposed to be going as well as number of get out now messages and phone calls... Needless to say we had packed bags and set a ladder to the roof.
But thankfully no I have never been in a natural disaster situation where I was fearing my life - but it was extremely stressful sitting waiting for something to happen - and I'd hope never to have to experience the complete experience.
As a bonus - I mentioned tropical cyclone as well - I was 10 weeks old at the time - not a big impact on my psyche =p.
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