Lets Not Lay Blame in 2013!

When no ones to blame

One very wet Australia Day Weekend

Just two years on Queensland is once again experiencing major flood levels over a significant part of the state. Just as we finished rebuild business and Homes waters again are invading our streets and home. The lost and the pain are still.

Our lives may of looked normal, but emotions were ready to crumble as the black clouds gathered we held our breach, surely it could not happen again.

I remember our pleased I been to finally hear rain drops on the timber roof next door. Finaly the bushfires ashes would settle and life giving rain had arrived.

But not one thought we see creeks running fast and breaking their banks waters rushing towards the Bremer and Brisbane rivers. Business only just reopened from the 2010 floods, lie under the water again today, like grave yards standing still in time.

We close our eyes and try to still our minds. The rain the water and mud are back. It has happened. Now whose to blame?

The government urge from clam, as they release water form the dam in preparation for the weekend rain. But it was too late, we go more rain than predicted. In truth we could not do much more than the authorities did two years again. 

Car park at our local shopping center

We could not stop the waters flowing into our street, homes and lives then and nor can we do it again. Rain and water has to move on somewhere. It has to move down through our water ways making its way out to sea. The no tap to turn it off! No dam big enough to hold 3 or 4 meters of rain in three days.

Flood victims for 2011 are set to sue the state government for no releasing flood waters, now they’re set to blame the state for the releases. I saw the politicians struggling to get it right yesterday. We hoped, we prayed but again we could stop the flood. Again it would choose its cause, winding in and out of our streets at will as we hold our breath.

Where's the river disappeared too?

Again there is no one to blame and again we hurt. Once again all we can do is cry, and pick ourselves up and try again. I pray blame games don’t happen.  We have hurt on top of hurt. Lets deal with that instead of playing the blame game!