A Bermudian helping with the distribution of aid in Australia has described communities beset by two different natural disasters.Grace Peck told The Royal Gazette: “Australians are great people, a lot like Bermudians, when it comes to spirit for the community. They have all done a fantastic job helping each other out in times when it’s needed the most.”Last month, Ms Peck joined a team delivering aid to flood-ravaged Queensland.With a donated 18 wheeler dubbed the “Truck of Hope”, she and her team from internet ad site eMoo are now struggling to bring donations to areas crippled by tropical cyclone Yasi.Ms Peck, who moved to Australia in 2008, said the February 3 storm took her back to Hurricane Fabian in Bermuda.“I remember (Fabian) wrecking John Smith’s Bay near my parents’ house in Smith’s.“But the damage done here by Yasi is by far worse than hurricane damage in Bermuda. It was Category 5 when it hit Queensland, and the houses are made out of brick or wood ... nothing like our limestone houses in Bermuda. They lost everything.”The four woman team started organising an emergency delivery of supplies last month, after floods swept across the region.“The floods wrecked so many properties. People died in their cars trying to get out. People sat on their roof tops with nothing but the clothes on their backs, for hours, until they could escape. It was a very traumatic natural disaster and all of us who are so safe in Tasmania wanted to help. That’s why we created Truck of Hope.”Now, Ms Peck said, “Yasi affected parts of Queensland that didn’t get touched by the floods, like Townsville ... I’m going to have a chat with the other girls from the Truck of Hope, and maybe our second truck will go to Townsville.”She said there are “no set plans as of yet”.Useful web links: Truck of Hope’s Facebook page (http://on.fb.me/dHi5DM).