Aftermath
I reckon there's worse to come. I helped clean up mud for three days, as did most of the city's population.

All the thousands of 44 gallon drums of petrochemical weirdness from around the Rocklea area disappeared into the flood, only to wash downstream and leach nasty stuff into the floodwaters.

The mud that we were spraying off buildings contained any amount of toxins, raw sewerage, bits of dead animals (and probably people) and various shitty chemicals.

I reckon ther's going to be a cancer cluster in about 10 years in Brisbane, as all those volunteers were exposed to some rather nasty stuff.

And, I know of one person who was particulaly distressed, because it looked like Merlo coffee shop at Paddington might run out of milk. Thankfully supplies got through in the end, although it was touch and go there for a while.

And the Bull Sharks ended up hanging around bus stops, picking off commuters as they boarded the bus for work. And people call them stupid animals eh?
( Ken Oath, Tue 19 Jun 2012, 3:18, 1 reply)

Don't worry Ken ...
you're too tough for that. Cancer's feart of the likes of you. Thanks a ton for helping with the clean up whilst lily livered cowards whined about the dratted inconvenience of it all.
(Que?, Tue 19 Jun 2012, 6:52, closed)