Still Homeless

We took the day off on Sunday. It felt like we were on holiday!

On Monday I did some more cleanup at our apartment building. Getting the pool back in shape has been on the back-burner but I saw that it needed a quick fix to prevent it becoming a nursery for mosquitoes and other nasties. I picked up a big tub of chlorine from the pool shop and threw a bunch of that in. It definitely did something as within a few minutes several fish popped up to the surface gasping for air.

 

Before the flood

After

It's going to take a lot of work to clean it, as it's a vinyl-lined pool which means that it would be damaged if all the water was pumped out - The water that's in has to be cleaned.

The rest of the week I'm doing more IT work at Volunteering Queensland, but yesterday was Australia Day. We didn't do the traditional beach 'n barbie though - Christine went to work and I helped a flooded friend throw out flood-damaged cupboards at his house in the morning and spent the rest of the day packing boxes at our apartment so that we can move as soon as the building is liveable again. Speaking of that, the power might be restored tomorrow, and then it will just be a few more days to get the lift and fire services fixed up before we can move in. There's still mud in the garages so Sunday is a mud-working day again.