THE FLOODING IN BANDAR LAMPUNG AND DECORATED TREES

Christmas has passed away three days ago. For all of you celebrating Christmas and who have not yet decorated your Christmas trees at home maybe this creative idea could help you solve the problem. Decorating trees for Christmas does not actually need a high budget. Placing ornaments made out of use items could actually make the Christmas celebration more festive than ever.

A team of medics and staff of P-G-I Cikini Hospital in Jakarta have been busy making beautiful Christmas decorations out of used goods Christmas trees complete with their decorations and placed in every room are the works of art of the hospital staff. Their ideas are unique and creative as I-V bottles mineral water bottles, egg shells sytrofoam and hospital brochures are made into Christmas decorations. It takes work to change these used items into tree ornaments.

With the decorations aside from entertaining patients at the hospital who can not celebrate Christmas with their loved ones at home. A competition is also being held to encourage the creativity of hospital staff and also make people more aware of the need to maintain a clean environment.

And now the bad news come from Bandar Lampung. After the flooding in Bandar Lampung citizens have begun to clear the mud and save their remaining belongings. Nevertheless since the flood has subsided the ten centimeter thick layer of mud in their houses has made it difficult for them to return to their homes.

Friday morning started with members of victims families cleaning up the mud and taking away their remaining belongings. Their electronic equipment has been badly damaged and they can only submit to their fate. The thickness of the mud has caused residents a delay in coming back to their homes.

The citizens state that the Thursday afternoon flood was the worst in seventeen years.There was also a flood back in 1991 but the water level reached no deeper than a metre.