BaileyboySenior Contributor
STORM DAMAGE!!!
I don't live in a great neighbourhood, break ins, yelling, someone chased someone else down the road with a machete, get knocks on the door all hours of the night, one house falling down and wrecked by neighbourhood kids, (bank only wants $5000 for land and house but still can't sell it), but my sister and I have a mortgage so at the moment we're stuck. Some days you just get on with life, I mean these things are not constant but the fact that they are there can add to the stresses.
Close neighbours do look out for one another but noone becomes too involved, a hi over the fence, put their garbage out if they are not home etc. We tend to keep to ourselves, us and our two dogs. Life goes on.
Last night we had what I can only call a 15 minute cyclone. Rain, wind and all of that. I went to close the back door and through the haze I watched a 60 m gum tree crash down onto another house across the road. Rang SES but there was really little else I could do. Luckily, noone was home at the house that the tree actually fell on but the damage was obvious. It's a 2 story dwelling and the tree has ripped the roof off basically. SES could not do anything cause it was so dark and there was lightning etc but today when we came home it had been removed, leaving a scarred and fractured poor old house.
I began to think about the similarities between that house and me. Trauma created such a big explosion, leaving it/me looking and feeling destroyed and exposed but noone else seemed to be completely aware of the inside damage. What's more noone really seemed to care. Life just went on.
When that tree fell, I felt terribly afraid. There are other trees around our houses and what damage would be caused ir they too toppled in the wind. Maybe they are stronger, maybe it was only this tree, it's roots rottened that could not sustain life. I can't call the SES for me...too damaged anyway, and who cares?
Any takers? Maybe just a c9nfused rant. Bb
