Painful admission,

Liz E · Post by **Liz E** » Tuesday Jun 12, 2007 4:27 pm

I live in Maitland beside the Hunter river. When the SES visited all the homes in this area and advised that we may be forced to evacuate we were compelled to make very quick decisions regarding what we would take and what would have to leave. To my dishonour, I decided to abandon all my HB gear to providence. Would you have done the same?

BTW, we did evacuate voluntarily but came home the next day to see a very pretty temporary lake advancing towards the back paddock but it came no further.

mobydick · Post by **mobydick** » Tuesday Jun 12, 2007 8:45 pm

I'd have just taken the wife and dog. Everything else is replaceable.

Boonie · Post by **Boonie** » Wednesday Jun 13, 2007 12:21 pm

Hi Liz E,

My place flooded under the house in Belmont, but the brews and bottles are high enough to avoid the water. First time ever flooded in my 6 years at this place.

Take the family, you can claim the brews under insurance surely.

Hope all is well......and let's hope that the rain predicted for this week stays away from us, and especially the Hunter.

Cheers

Boonie

Chris · Post by **Chris** » Wednesday Jun 13, 2007 1:18 pm

I'd have taken my wort chiller. Have you seen the price of copper?!

Liz E · Post by **Liz E** » Wednesday Jun 13, 2007 8:26 pm

Hi Boonie,

Happy to hear that your HB was advantageously placed and I don't envy your clean-up. Good luck with that.

I live in the flood zone so there's nil chance of getting flood insurance on anything. Fortunately like mobydick said, it's all replaceable.

mobydick · Post by **mobydick** » Wednesday Jun 13, 2007 10:34 pm

I was in the position of standing in my house in Canberra, with a bushfire about 1Km away. I had enough moments to really consider what I could fit in the car, before being evacuated. I already had clothes packed. I thought about about photo's and my hi fi. But settled on the wife and dog. The house was spared, thankfully.

But it's time like that, that you really learn to appreciate whats worthwhile.

Chris · Post by **Chris** » Friday Jun 15, 2007 11:45 am

But you took the wife...

mobydick · Post by **mobydick** » Friday Jun 15, 2007 7:00 pm

My wife drinks and swears more than I do. Unfortunately its Sav Blanc, though she will drink Coopers Green in the summer.

gregb · Post by **gregb** » Friday Jun 15, 2007 8:06 pm

mobydick wrote:My wife drinks and swears more than I do.

Well, it is the painful admissions thread afterall.

Cheers,
Greg