Mopping up a flood-ravaged home is a gargantuan task at any age, let alone when you’re aged 83 and 85, but it’s entirely in Hon and Sue’s character to be working so hard with the clean-up.
Aged in their mid-80s, Sue and Hon Louey move slower than they used to and they are hard of hearing.
The ground floor housed the rumpus room, garage and storage, meaning it was where many family mementos, collected over five generations, were being kept. But family photos, many from last century and in black and white, were gently peeled out of sodden photo albums to dry out and salvage. Traditional Chinese crockery was washed down with a hose.. Many victims have chosen to temporarily move out during the clean-up, but Sue and Hon have refused to leave their house of almost 40 years. They continue to sleep on the second level, where most of the living spaces are.
Mopping up a flood-ravaged home is a gargantuan task at any age, let alone when you’re 83 and 85, but it’s entirely in Hon and Sue’s character to be working so hard with the clean-up.Luis Enrique Ascui “So even though it’s not a very sensible thing to do at their age, to get them to rest is almost impossible.
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