Brisbane MNetters - Are you Okay??

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Just seen on the news the crazy weather you have been experiencing!

I hope you are all ok and haven't had any damage done to your homes.

I am not there but my parents are friends still are. My folks had 25cm of rain in 8 hours. No power (and they run everthing off the mains power so there is no water atm), trees down and roads cut.
I too hope that any Northside people are ok too.

Maybe they can't read the messages as they are underwater?

Hope not.

Obv.

Seriously, are you ok. On the news it looked terrible. And you had a visit from Kevin Rudd so things MUST be bad.

the weather over there is a bit mental at the mo, isn't it - glad I'm back in the UK! At least it feels fairly normal for November here, although we might be getting snow this weekend apparently.

hope all QLanders are ok up there..

i'm okay - had a little but of water through under the house - high set - few books had to be chucked and had a clothesline of cuddly toys etc.

We lost power for a few hours.

My mum lost power for a couple of days and had trees all over her yard as well as smashed louvres and water in the bathroom. Her road was one of the worst hit after The Gap and no mention of it ever.

Dh is in the SES - he had to attend work but has been out at nights earlier in the week.

We had another storm last night and another one predicted for tomorrow night.

Yes but again kevin went to the Gap which was pretty bad but a lot of houses in my mum's street were bad too. As well as the other side of the hill from the GAP.

It has taken my mum all week to clean up her place. I told her to wait until the weekend when dh and I could do it but no she had to do it. This guy who was not able to work due to the rain etc was going along mum's road helping out people who needed help but weren't emergencies iyswim. He helped hum pull up the bigger branches from her yard to put out for the council to come along and clean up.

THere is a real strict policy about what SES can and can't do. They are an emergency crew not a clean up crew iyswim and so they have been getting a lot of bagging. So the do things like tarp roofs, evacuate people, sandbag, rescue, remove trees that are a danger.

I could not believe one guy bitching about no one helping him out - his place was not that bad and he was a strapping healthy able to prowl the street stalking tv crews but not able to do his own place - very strange. Then there was another guy who was really abusive to my mum when she tried to warn him about her powerlines being down across the road. SES had tried to tell this guy to go back and do a detour as there was live lines across the road, mum told the guy that it was her powerline and this guy called her a stupid old woman and what would you know - tried telling mum it was her phone line. My mum smiled and said - that's why I can call SES and energex but can't watch TV. People were really abusive to the police who were trying to get them to turn around rather than trying to drive up the footpaths to get around this tree that was across the road.

SUch a contrast - people mucking in to help where they can and idiots being stupid and trying to cause more chaos.

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Eidsvold...how long has your DH been in the SES? I was an SES member in Brisvegas for many years before I moved to the UK. I am thinking that even on Mumsnet its a small world and that I might know him.

for three years Aussie Lou.

I probably do know him then. Small world.
Gotta love the SES.
I hope he is not working too hard on the roofs.

Glad to hear you are ok... so far!

It is wild, wet and windy here in Melbourne tonight. Not to mention pissing with rain and cold.

DH has gone to bed and I am watching old episodes of 'Sex in the city' on the sofa wrapped in a blanket.

I hope my roof doesn't blow off... or more importantly the TV antenna!!

ooh, can I totally hijack this thread for a minute?

IF you are in Brissie and you gave birth, who was your OB-GYN and would you recommend them?

I'll be landing Dec.13, 24 weeks...

apologies to those who only wanted to think about the weather

phD - you can do something called shared care here - which is public health. I just went to my GP and she referred me pretty smartly onto the Royal Brisbane, if you are southside Mater has just opened its new mothers' hospital. I then did most of my checkups with the GP and just a few essential appts at the hospital. I had the same consultant on the public system - but I can't remember his name. I think I saw him three times in two pregnancies.

WIll you have had your 20 week scan? I was 18 weeks when we landed and managed to get my scan fairly sharpish.

I had the two dds in Royal Brisbane - c-sections - can't fault their care at all. You can chose to be private or public patient.

Shared care was fab for me with the dds as I had dd1 with sn and it was so much easier to have an early appt at the gp's and get in and out than have to wait at the hospital or that. GP's 2 minutes away - hospital almost an hour.

that's another whole issue isn't it Eidsvold - Howard changed everything while we've been living in the UK and I don't have a clue what the health system is like any more. Have been advised that going private is basically compulsory now??

My dsis is a MW at RBH and has got me an appt with her fave obstetrician, just wondered what others thought. (She, of course, did not NEED an obstetrician but I am Vastly Aged and needed emc last time so everyone's figuring I need a consultant again this time.) Have had 20-week scan (lol, it was 12-week scan too as I didn't know I was pg until 18 weeks!) must remember to chase blood test results...

oh phd - i had 2 c-sections public and they were brilliant. Even after dd1 where I had the emergency c-section and dd1 having her cardiac condition and ds. I was somewhat high risk but was still able to have most of my care done by GP.

We actually do not have private health insurance at the moment and are doing okay in terms of dd1's health care and I think other than having your own room in terms of the private health cover - you share the same midwives etc with public patients. I think the only difference between one woman and I in terms of antenatal appts was that she was able to have a scan every time if she wanted!!!!!

Even though I had the emc with dd1 and her cardiac condition and down syndrome I was still able to do shared care! So much easier I tell you. I then had maybe one extra consultant's appt over the usual number.

With dd3 - older, 2 c-sections already and at risk of baby having cardiac condition - 1 in 50 chance - still able to do shared care. ALthough they can check for cardiac condition during 20 week scan - still not really able to rule them out until they are 3 or 4.

So see what they say.

phd - I had a 1st (and last!) appointment once with a high profile brisbane ob. I thought he was rude to me. Found out since from various sources that (rightly or wrongly) he has a reputation for giving cesaerians to anything that moves. His initials were dm.