Endurance

The POW prompt this week is “endurance”. I live in Brisbane, Australia, which is currently going through some pretty horrendous flooding. Luckily I live on a hill, so the most I’ve had to endure was the incessant condescending, repetitious news reports with all their emotional hype (and a few days off work…). If you only watch the television, it feels like the apocalypse is upon us. If you walk the streets, you see the reality – sure, lots of people are flooded but it seems like twice that many are hovering around willing to help out. Please note that only applies to my local area; I’m pretty sure Toowoomba and the Lockyer Valley have indeed met the apocalypse and the death toll from those areas when the water goes down is going to be horrendous.

Many of my favourite local haunts will emerge badly flood damaged once the water goes down and the carnage spreads across something like 75% of our state. Many people have water up to their gutters, some don’t even have houses any more. So pretty please, donate some money to the Premier’s Disaster Relief Appeal. I have taken some photos of the impact of our local area, but if you need more convincing, there are plenty of other shots from around the state circulating on the net.

And so, the poem: