The army of volunteers

[Damien]

This flood crisis in Queensland is continuing - three quarters of Queensland has been hammered, including the capital - Brisbane, and hit very very hard.

Over a million have been affected - so many people's homes have been destroyed, so many people are coming home from the evacuation centres to find their homes destroyed, the posessions ruined - including photos and such.

They faced the awful task of cleaning up and sorting through what could be saved and what had to be trashed.

But, they turn around and a legion of strangers - volunteers come seemingly out of no where and help out - for no reason other than to help out.

Yesterday, I was helping at a neighbour's business and sure enough, the amount of volunteers to came and went was phenomenal.

There are over a million volunteers it seems... like someone said on the news, what was our darkest days, became our finest.

[Mishi]

It's a wonderful effort! A lot of businesses are contributing to the clean up as well. There's a camera store on the northside of Brisbane offering advice on salvaging photos as well as scanning them and burning them to disc for free. There's also storage places offering free space for peoples belongings and many employers are giving people days off so that they can volunteer.

[dawnfire]

it's a wonderful thing

I have a friend from Kinglake who lost his house in the black saturday fires who has driven up there to help in the cleanup and coordinate a couple of shipping containers of goods to be transported up there. That's what is to be Australian, to look after you mates, even if you don't know them.

[Kristev]

How beautiful.