Don writes:
‘Sitting in the Lowood club hotel where we managed to get a room tonight and tomorrow. Lucky, because most rooms are taken by local families who lost their homes and everything. Pretty depressing. This is the heart of Lockyer Valley.
We drove up to Toowoomba this morning, 2 hours, to find that we weren't need, so after phoning all sorts of places, we were directed too, we went back to the farm we were at Sunday and carried on our work there.
But our drive through this area really has brought home the scale and violence of this event.
It's so big, describing it does not come close to the overwhelming size of what has occurred.
Mark was just at the bar and a woman asked him how he did in the flood. He explained what we were doing and asked her how she did. They lost everything but were luckier than their friends who lost a 4 year old son as well.
It wets the eyes and fills you with grief for these fellow humans. Imagine a whole community dealing with this tragedy.
Well we are back to it tomorrow even though it's Aussie day.’
After reading this email I could not help but cry. If the email affected me in this way can you imagine what affect it had on our ‘R-Team’ listening to this distraught family relay theirs and their neighbor’s story? Dear God!
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