a tad damp

meanwhile in adelaide/SA we got bushfires going

Crikey! I'd been away since Friday morning and, as I don't listen to the radio and hadn't seen any TV, I hadn't heard about the rain in Qld.

It was a little damp in where I was in Gloucester but not that bad. I came back via Dungog and saw some of the damage from a week or so back.

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Originally Posted by V8Ian

My mate from Redcliffe was inundated for the first time ever. His house was regularly surrounded by a moat, but never before has it flooded. Flood plains north and south of his house have been raised two metres or more and developed for housing.
By the time he realised the house was going under, the water outside was neck deep. He called the SES and spent over half an hour on hold, meanwhile the water was still rising so he hung up and called the fire brigade. The firies said they'd be there ASAP. They haven't got there yet.
His three year old XR6 is also a write-off.

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The house is still uninhabitable, repairs from the hail storm last November have not yet started. The insurance assessors have not yet looked at the house since the flood. In a bid to hurry things along, last Friday morning he phoned the insurance company and told them he needed to utilise the emergency accommodation clause in the policy; the company told him that he would be contacted by phone within two hours. Still waiting, hasn't heard a peep.

Pm me if you want to know which insurance company.

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Originally Posted by V8Ian

The house is still uninhabitable, repairs from the hail storm last November have not yet started. The insurance assessors have not yet looked at the house since the flood. In a bid to hurry things along, last Friday morning he phoned the insurance company and told them he needed to utilise the emergency accommodation clause in the policy; the company told him that he would be contacted by phone within two hours. Still waiting, hasn't heard a peep.

Pm me if you want to know which insurance company.

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lot of it going around

pretty poor behaviour on the part of some insurance companies and some pretty heavy profiteering going on by a lot of tradies in the area

the local charities are ringing round local businesses trying to raise funds to help out as many of the old ways of getting support have been culled by government it seems.

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Originally Posted by V8Ian

The house is still uninhabitable, repairs from the hail storm last November have not yet started. The insurance assessors have not yet looked at the house since the flood. In a bid to hurry things along, last Friday morning he phoned the insurance company and told them he needed to utilise the emergency accommodation clause in the policy; the company told him that he would be contacted by phone within two hours. Still waiting, hasn't heard a peep.

Pm me if you want to know which insurance company.

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A tree fell on my house about three years ago, I had to chase and chase my insurance company to get repairs done and then some of the repairs were not carried out in a tradesman like manner and I had to chase the insurance company again. It took months and the storm was nowhere near as big as the recent one we had.

I feel sorry for people who have had damage done recently as there will be a lot more claims to process and the sharpy tradesman will be out there trying to scam the system.