6 months on… It’s been a trying time, for us and many in the area. After the initial clean and tidy, we brought all our ruined items, that is parts of our lives, to the street, and watched it all get thrown into the back of a truck. After the initial communications delay, either myself or Mum have been on the phone (often on hold!) to the insurance company, builders, assessors and anyone else connected with the rebuild every week, and it’s still very slow going. Latest estimate is the house won’t be finished before Easter next year. It’s understandable when you consider the 1000’s homes damaged, lack of work people and materials, but it doesn’t make this situation any more tolerable, it really sucks. We spent many days working on the contents list for the insurance. It’s really hard to go through each item that was lost. Painfully reminded each time what we went through, what others went through. The house has been ‘made safe’, the walls removed, parts of ceilings removed, bathrooms and kitchen pulled out. It is now a space that sounds big, empty and lonely. I’ve tried to come to terms with what happened, to say well it’s just a house, it’s just stuff… but it’s more than that… it was a home, and it was our lives, and it’s not so easy to shrug that off. #flood2022 #oceanshores #nswfloods #flooddamage #flood #flooding (at Ocean Shores) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch9Go-oBpXZ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
