Qld floods are receding and leaving their marks of destruction. There’s one good thing that is happening today. That is the willingness of Australians to help each other out when trouble strikes. When calamity strikes, friends, family and strangers will rally around to help. Mateship is part of the Australian psyche.
Today has been dubbed “Salvation Saturday”.
So what is salvation Saturday?
Salvation Saturday is when thousands of homes around Brisbane alone need cleaning up after the catastrophic floods that have occurred this week and thousands of volunteers are registering at volunteering centre’s to help with the job.
These wonderful volunteers are turning up with all their own cleaning gear, spades, mops, brooms, gloves, buckets and hoses. They are bringing with them everything they believe they will need to get the job done.
They have to bring everything themselves simply because there is absolutely nothing left in any home that is usable to do the job. The people they will be assigned to help in whatever street they will be working in, has had everything destroyed.
Why bring spades and shovels?
Spades and shovels are needed to remove the silt and slime left by floodwater's that have destroyed sewerage treatment plants, dead farm animals and picked up port-a-loos from building sites. All this mixture of vile sludge has to be removed first before hosing out and cleaning can start. It’s a filthy job.
The next group of volunteers that will be needed urgently are construction workers. All these thousands of homes need repairs. Firstly, they will be needing electricians and plumbers. Without energy and sewerage services to a house people will be unable to go home.
Once the insurance payouts come through and people can start the repairs and rebuilding of their homes, there will be enough work in Qld for construction contractors for a long time to come.
Salvation Saturday is just the beginning of a long hard climb back to normality.
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