Kat Johnston

Tag: flood

  • EaHH: Australia Day Concert is Underway!

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    EaHH: Australia Day Benefit Concert in Full Swing.

    The Australia Day Flood Relief Benefit is in full swing, and I am happy beyond words… but I’m going to write a few words anyway. As I sit writing this, 54 people are on the sim, the donation booth is getting donations left, right and centre, and the act that just finished (Marky Helstein, Doug Lind in the real world) just blew my mind… my lord everyone, thank-you. Just thank-you.

    Make sure you pop by to the Australia Day Concert when you have a chance – you certainly won’t regret it!

  • Extend a Helping Hand Quick-links.

    EDIT: Hi to anyone who might find the site by Googling my name after the news article! I’d just like to mention that I am looking for work in Brisbane, and am open to any and all employment opportunities. Just use the contact form to get in touch (because I would seriously like to hear from you).

    This post will stay at the top of the list until Extend a Helping Hand, an event I am hosting to raise money for the Premier’s Disaster Relief Appeal, is over. It will give you all the quick-links you need to find out all necessary information for Extend a Helping Hand.

    If you are a vendor who is interested in a second-round spot, pick up the info pack from the Sanu Mainstore. For venue and rezzing enquiries, please contact the venue manager, Andel Rhiadra. If you are interested in hosting an entertainment event to go towards EaHH, please contact December Larkham. Just scroll down for all the other recent posts and updates!

  • Sketch / Photo: Flooding in Brisbane prevents my posting yesterday.

    Kat Johnston Sketch: Yes… this is what I planned to post yesterday. That didn’t freakin happen though…

    Yesterday I planned on posting an image, this sketch I had created moments before scanning it in. However, no sooner than I had uploaded it to Flickr and was preparing to write my post today, that the incredible occurred. My rumpus room flooded.

    It has been steadily raining here over the past few days, and of course, we had to get flooded. The room went from dry to having a third of it covered in water in about two minutes flat. Now here’s the thing – this didn’t have to happen. There was no reason for this to happen – it was preventable! Our lounge had been flooded before, and there was ample opportunities for the owners of this place to fix the problem – in fact, I think they even filed an insurance claim over it. Did they fix the seal that allowed our rented property to flood though? No. They decided in their infinite wisdom that it ‘wouldn’t happen again’. It was very obviously a problem with dodgy construction, but they decided that rather than caring about the well-being of their tenants, they’d just let it slide and get the carpets cleaned.

    I’ve been absolutely fuming over this, mainly because it was only by sheer luck that I was downstairs at the time this occurred to whisk all of our electronics equipment up from their places before they were drowned. It doesn’t do anything to help that the owners violated the residential tenancies act and had builders over to our place twice without any notice whatsoever either, twice in two weeks. Once this week, at 7:30 in the morning!

    I’m telling you, if we didn’t need a place to live right now, I would be shooting daggers at people and glaring very very angrily. There might just be the use of flame-throwers too. I am not currently a happy camper.

    Anyhow, hardly anything we can do about it now… so here’s a photo! Welcome to our new indoor swimming pool, courtesy of fools who would rather get annoyed tenants and carpet cleaned after the fact rather than fix the problem in the first place.

    Kat Johnston: Flooding in Brisbane… why’d it have to be us?