I have been back in Tembagapura for four days now and wanted to do a walk about town to see some of the damage from the landslide up close and personal. I also wanted to update everyone on the progress that has been made in these last few weeks. It may not look like much from the pictures but tons and tons of rock and material have been moved to recreate roads and shore up the river banks and just get us prepared for the next rain. Men are working around the clock, as long as it isn't pouring rain, to get the town back to its new normal.
For those of you who have not been to site to visit, these pictures may not make sense. For those who have been here, hopefully the pictures will have a reference point that you can recognize.
There are three areas of reference:
1. Admin Building at 68 or I call it HR.
2. Down River - which means looking down stream from the bridge that crosses the river by the tennis courts and Street 8 (I think)
3. Up River - is from the same spot only looking up the river/up the mountain toward HR
HR Area
I'm standing by the fire hall here. It still looks like a mess, but most of the material from this area was moved to build the road back up in front of school and to shore up the river slopes.
This is not the best picture, but it shows the massive pile of rock that was deposited by the bridge behind HR. In a few pictures there will be a semi aerial view of this area.
What's left of the bridge. HR in the background.
The excavator that was buried in the slide material from my first Landslide post.
Same excavator, view from across the river standing by HR.
DHL is still standing!! All the other buildings behind it were wiped out!
Directly behind the DHL office, where Telkomsel's office and a few other offices used to stand.
Just an idea of clean up to come. This is the building to the left of the DHL office.
Views from the HR stairwell. The DHL container still lives!! ;)
The orange excavator is next to the bridge from the previous picture. The semi aerial view of the debris pile from before.
Down River
I'm not sure what this mangled piece of metal is, but it made it's way and stopped across from the FM, Town Management, whatever you want to call them, offices.
Missing sidewalk
Looking upstream from the missing sidewalk area.
More missing sidewalk but down past the "garden center".
Where once the old Banti bridge stood. I'm hoping to get down to where I can get a picture of the bridge where it deposited itself down stream.
Looking back up towards the bridge by the tennis courts.
I just thought I would throw this pic in, to show how steep everything is. Mt. Zaagkam, with cloud cover, to the left.
Walking back up to the bridge. The Street side erosion.
Getting to the bridge, ready to cross over to the Street side. The next two pictures are on the tennis court side. Only one lane of traffic available.
Before I crossed the bridge from the tennis court side to the Street side, I took a picture of the new rebuilt road going in front of the school.
Looking across to the tennis court side. Completely building a new wall up to the road. A side note, before the landslide, when on site, I walked that sidewalk everyday! Eeks!!
Up River
I'm standing on the bridge taking a picture towards the hospital. The newly built school road is on the left. A large dumpster, from somewhere, deposited in the middle of the river!
A temporary work area on the side of the road...
Walking up to the bridge by the hospital.
Standing on the walking bridge, by the hospital, looking up towards HR. Hospital on the left.
Same bridge, looking down stream. School is on the right. I'm pretty sure, all that material is newly deposited from the clean out by HR.
Looking down toward the walking bridge. Hospital on the right.
And last but not least, the warehouse. HR would be a little uphill and to the right of this picture.
And then I turned around and walked home.
It is an unbelievable amount of destruction that has happened to our little mining town! But we are recovering as only we can do. The hours of work that have gone into rebuilding and will continue to do so, will be numerous. Like I said though in my first landslide post, the one thing we Tembagapurians do well is work together in crisis mode. The town is shaping up into a new "normal" and we will go on with life.
I will continue to up date as more clean-up takes place. So stay tuned...
xo
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