Discussion: Terrible week
in: Mess Engineer; Mess Engineer > 2015-04-26
Apr 27, 2015 8:25 AM
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Sounds like you sustained a large amount of damage. Hope things return to normal soon.
Apr 27, 2015 11:11 AM
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Thanks Prue.
I can typically just manage to keep on top of the work here but natures fury was unstoppable and will take time to recover from.
I may upload some photos but I may also choose to not have a permanent record available either.
Other houses in estate got water flowing through them or crushed by trees so I fared better than them.
At least my roof damage wasn't structural and I had spare tiles so I could sort it myself temporarily.
The neighbour whose bridge washed away has a survey marker with the height of the 1955 Maitland 100 year flood level on it .... And we got 300 mm higher than that!
In fact you cannot build a house out here unless it is above that level. A new house only 1 km down the road was only finished 3 months ago and it got flooded throughout.
I can typically just manage to keep on top of the work here but natures fury was unstoppable and will take time to recover from.
I may upload some photos but I may also choose to not have a permanent record available either.
Other houses in estate got water flowing through them or crushed by trees so I fared better than them.
At least my roof damage wasn't structural and I had spare tiles so I could sort it myself temporarily.
The neighbour whose bridge washed away has a survey marker with the height of the 1955 Maitland 100 year flood level on it .... And we got 300 mm higher than that!
In fact you cannot build a house out here unless it is above that level. A new house only 1 km down the road was only finished 3 months ago and it got flooded throughout.
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