QLD:Diary of a flooded Brisbane family

AAP General News (Australia)
02-07-2011
QLD:Diary of a flooded Brisbane family

This article is the second in a series by AAP reporter Lisa Martin covering one Brisbane
family's flood recovery.

By Lisa Martin

BRISBANE, Feb 7 AAP - Jed Robusto's career as a surgeon is getting off to a soggy start.

Less than a month before the 20-year-old was to move to Canberra to begin his post-grad
in medicine at ANU, his family's riverside Brisbane home at Kenmore was flooded, forcing
a move to a rental property at St Lucia, another flood-affected suburb, while their home
is repaired.

"Saving my textbooks was the first priority, …