MJCQ clubhouse flooded

nigel ward · #1 14-01-11, 10:44

Hi All
Many of you may not be aware that Queensland, Australia has been greatly affected by flooding.

The MJCQ ( Military jeep club of Queensland) has it's club house at the Brisbane suburb of Rocklea.

My wife and I managed to get on site today. Copy below link for website.

http://www.mjcqinc.com/2011/Brisbane...Clubhouse.html

We have posted some photo's that Leisa and Dave Stafford took. We are having a working bee tomorrow and will post further photo's tomorrow.

The club house had 1.1 metres ( 4 foot) of water through it. We are not the worst hit. Over 16 lives have been lost with many more not accounted for.
Somewhere in the order of 20,000 homes and businesses have been flooded.

Kind Regards

Nigel Ward

Lynn Eades · #2 14-01-11, 11:32

I was wondering how you were faring. Having spoken to you on the phone last sunday,now makes it all a little more real. If I remember your house is on a hill side. I'm guessing you guys are ok at home. We are thinking of you and your families at this tough time.
Lynn and Chris.

Matt Baker · #3 14-01-11, 13:52

Hi guys,

Myself and Suzann Will try to get on site tommorow if we can get down from Ipswich i am deeply concerned about my place of employment which is probably still submerged at the other end of sherwood road, close to the markets, as i have said we will endeavour to get there but may not be possible.

TTFN Matt Baker.

nigel ward · #4 14-01-11, 14:40

Hi Lynn
Thanks for your concern. To date I have not heard of any members who are in deep strife. We are going to contact those in the Toowoomba, Gatton area.
Access to that area is not possible at the moment to anyone but emergency workers.

Matt.
Mate, thanks for the effort. I'm not sure if Ipswich road is open either. They were working on it when we were there earlier today. Take care.

Nigel

Keith Orpin · #5 15-01-11, 00:13

Nigel & Lisa,
Been following the events here in England, unbeleiviable amounts of water. I know you guys get flooded ever now and again, but this is rediculous !. I understand that the British goverment are about to send help/aid to those affected by this.
Please take care
Regards
Keith

maple_leaf_eh · #6 15-01-11, 05:34

The site link takes me to a debt consolidation service (ironic if you think how much we seem to spend on our vehicles). Your club can be forgiven for having interweb troubles.

Good luck with the work ahead of you.

Snowy · #7 15-01-11, 12:42

Terry and others, yes we are aware of the problem with MJCQ website access and are working on it. Sorry for the inconvenience, I'll post a note when it has been resolved.
In the meantime I have mirrored the page to my home server:
http://202.63.50.228/MJCQ/2011/Brisb...Clubhouse.html

More photos of today's cleanup to come, it was a very good turnout for the working bee.

Steve.

nigel ward · #8 16-01-11, 14:20

Hi all

We had well over 25 members attend the working bee. More than 5 high pressure water units were taken along.
I think that despite the dirty work all enjoyed themselves.

We even gave a hand at the house next door. We removed all the furniture, ripped up all the floor coverings and washed the house out with the water blasters. The young follow who was renting it had only moved in 2 weeks ago and has new everything. Beds, lounges, TV, computer and so on. Most of it is now rubbish, I do not think you would get rid of the smell.
The poor bugger was beside himself, He didn't know where to start.

My thanks to those who attended. Many hands make light work.

Thanks Keith for your kind words. There are still some 400 homes under water and many have only been able to get to their homes today.
The news tonight said over 50,000 people volunteered to help the clean up in Brisbane today. The council set up staging posts and used buses to get them to the places needing help. Owners of trucks and earth moving equipment donated their machines and time to assist.

Thanks everyone for your interest.

Nigel