On Jakarta floods 4

Today was a very tiring day.

Remember my aunt's house in Pdk Safari?
Well, me and my brother were ordered by our parents to go to her house to help her clean up the mess.

My mother was already there and the flood gone.
Can't believe that a few days ago water covered 1/4 of the house.
I could just imagine the damage it had done to it.

It was pretty sunny, the sun was up and..it was just another beautiful day.
It rained only for a few minutes during the day, but it was a very sunny day!

I entered the house to check for any damages.
Obviously lot's of her clothes and bed sheets were soaked wet and smelly.
Also lots of kitchen utensils were submerged in the flood, we had them cleaned but some of them were beyond repair (they were too old to be of any use anyway) so we had to throw them away.

Even two of her beds had to be thrown out.
Yup, two spring beds!

But those can be replaced.
What surprised me the most were my cousins official documents, including her high school diploma, birth certificates, etc.
They were all just wet and damaged.
Don't know how those are gonna get replaced.

Guess in her panic she just...forgot about them and left the house.

So the four of us cleaned what ever could be cleaned until the afternoon.
Knowing that we would have to come back and clean again if a flood would ever come again.

We felt hungry and a tukang bakso passed by so we ordered....six bowls of bakso with pangsit.
Four for my bro and me and two for my aunt and mother :-)

We went home shortly after that.

We turned on the TV to get some new info about the flood.
Now even companies are sending messages to their employees not to come to work tomorrow.
Lots of telecommunication company networks' are down.
I couldn't even get hold of my brother in Bandung.
So we just kept sending messages.

Many people are blaming the government for this.
Well, they have a point.
The government was making a special canal to prevent flood from happening again in Jkt in the East Jkt area.
The plan was to make the canal as long as 24km. But so far the government only finished 7.7km of it.

Hmmm...it's late already.
Oh yeah my aunts' families are still staying here.
Maybe I'll start writing about my baby cousins next time.