MELBOURNE - In my routine scribe of the court, not fresh off the boat, I open the television that offers news sull'Australian Open, and follow the interview of the beautiful Maria Sharapova, intent to complain about a no less attractive, rosy, smooth right shoulder which stopped its success for more than a year, but now, after much suffering, should have convinced her to work with his owner to resume a successful career.I have not finished hope to see Maria less unfortunate that the program changes, and the smiling image of the player is suddenly replaced by a group of people weeping on the stage of a catastrophic scenario. Behind what looks like a chorus of mourners, I glimpse fragments of a doomsday scenario, while the speaker presents the results of the flood that hit Brisbane, due to the overflowing of the river that gives the city its name.
Reddish brown mud from the lagoon to look incredulous, jut here and there the roofs of houses, remains of fences, rails, trees uprooted, skeletons of cars, buses, rail cars, as if it were a crib upset by a crowd of something incredible to be a piece of reality. Explains, the speaker, that something similar had happened to Brisbane in 1974, and that ten years later, to prevent a repetition, had built a dam on behalf of Wivenhoe, which was to secure the city from the excesses of rain making this great country no less immune from the usual big fires of the hot season.
In an attempt to rationalize the tragedy in terms of statistics, the figures fell to the unwary listeners of the disaster. In a city of two million inhabitants, forty thousand flood had flooded and submerged buildings, homeless almost a tenth of the population, clear roads and fifteen hundred, what is worse, caused a dozen deaths and fifty missing.
Was reported even a flash of the administrator of Queensland, the wounded, Andrew Fraser, which evaluated so far, damage in six billion Australian dollars, a more recent revaluation of the currencies of the world's poor with regard to the euro. But such considerations were no less impressive picture of a girl from the big blue eyes, smile and open up two milk teeth, Jessica Keep.
His uncle Darren Keep, barely alive, tells the story of the desperate struggle of his brother Matthew in an attempt to save his wife Stacey, pregnant, and their three children. The current swept the house flooded Stacey, clinging with one hand in a gutter, while the other was holding the baby, until both are entangled in the wire, which ended up separating them.
As he realized, the mother ceased to resist, and was dragged away, until a helicopter came incredibly, whose pilot risked his life to save her. "Save her from that, it makes me wonder, while the helicopter pilot, Mark Kempton, said in tears: "No matter how many managed to survive because for everyone who pulled off another escape there." coward I shut the TV, at this point, had not appeared in another image, that of a specialist Civil defense against fire.
escaped countless fires, Garry Jibson was engaged in the work of rescue, when the wall of water swept his truck as a fireman, on which he tried to escape the danger Llync his wife, his son twelve Garry Jr. and his daughter Jocelyn, for five years. As he wrote in this regard, the Herald Sun newspaper, Garry has not yet found the strength to communicate the drama of the one survived by her son, Zachary, of seven years.
But I think it is appropriate to continue.
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