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Thanks to

weepingnaiad for the lovely sunflower and hugs! *hugs back*

6 1/2 months since Cyclone Yasi and the builders are finally here! Without any notice I might add. Oh I knew they were coming, but did expect to have a little time beforehand to clear out the mess in the sheds and maybe pick up all my fallen branches. But on Tuesday morning I got a call at work from the builder who was sitting out the front of my place. He asked if he could start work and I was all 'yes, yes! Please yes!'

So they've finished the veranda, carport and patio roofs and are in the middle of replacing my sheds. It's awesome! The carport roof is probably 200% nicer than the original and the half-built shed is not rusty :)

space_wrapped is gearing up for the coming winter celebrations. I wonder if I could actually finish something?

At last! I have full internet back!

For the past two weeks since the cyclone the internet at home hasn't been working. I've been subsisting on a couple hours a day *staggers*, courtesy of the surf club's USB wireless internet. Finally the Telstra guy actually came to the house yesterday and put everything to rights. What's more, it was no fault of mine, my house, computer etc! It was the phone line and modem - so both were fixed at no cost to me!!! *bounces madly*

Our town is slowly recovering from the cyclone. There are trees down everywhere and the main park in town was decimated. It's so strange to see some places without trees. I'm still cleaning my yard and am at the stage of needing some chain saw mojo for tidying the big trees. I want to take a chain saw course, I figure it would be useful. But it takes 2 full days, so...not this time. Though I'm so annoyed at work, I'm thinking about it *grins*. By doing the course, I get my ticket and can actually be employed as a chain saw expert! Can you picture it???

I really, really want to join the Ship Olymics being run in the Star Trek fandom, but fear I couldn't hold up my end. I'm afraid I'd be the team member the team all talk about because I fail to deliver :(

It's 3 weeks until the LG and I are off to the Junior State Titles. What with floods and cyclones he hasn't done nearly enough training. But we've bought the air fare and booked the accommodation - so we're still going. I'm looking forward to some real waves however and am going to spend at least a couple of hours in the sea :D

Hi there everyone! Finally I'm back...

I has electricity! :D Therefore I have internet as well...

It's 8 days since the electricity went off during Cyclone Yasi and boy are we glad to have it back. Living out of the eski (ice box) got old really quick.

We're all fine. I lost the veranda roof, a few panels off the back patio and the LG's shed has a caved roof which is leaking. The house stood up well, we had no broken windows or anything. My trees, like everyone else's took a battering and after the clean-up I can see my house for the first time in years :D

The cyclone was followed by a flood and we had no water for about 3 days, but since I have a gas stove we cooked and ate well the whole time.

Our town is a mess and there's lots of people without power still, some of the outlying areas may be 5 weeks or more. But our town is doing ok thank goodness.

Of course we had the cyclone just when it was my week to do the Daily Captain and Daily Doctor posts at

jim_and_bones. Lucky for me my fellow comm members did the job for me!

Thanks to to the lovely

lvs_2read for doing

firefly_signal and thanks for all my lovely flisters who asked how I was going. *hugs everyone*.

Now I have oceans of fic and vids to catch up on. Glad to see you all!!!!!!! :D

Queensland Police Service update regularly on Facebook with info - keep an eye on it!

Cyclone Yasi is now a category 5 and has changed direction again. According to the map the eye may now be a bit closer to us. Though poor Innisfail (Cyclone Larry) looks to be right in it's path.

Because of storm surge, the first two streets close to the beach here have been evacuated, but they say we don't have to go. I could still go into my friend's place, but in reality she's only 17kms away and will get the same impact we will - so I'm undecided. I probably have another 3 hours or so to make up my mind.

The library closed yesterday and the PTBs are turning off the water at 7am (twenty minutes from now) and we've filled up all our water containers. Everything in the yard (branches, bikes, tables etc has been moved inside. I guess we just have to wait it out.

Strangely for our area we missed (this time) all the terrible floods that occurred South of us, but now we're on Cyclone watch. TC Anthony which reformed after fizzling last week is expected to hit us at category 3 on Monday and another cyclone currently out near Vanuatu is expected to hit Thursday.

I'll be spending all tomorrow (Saturday) hauling branches to the dump and picking up everything around the yard. Cross your fingers that it will all be unneccessary!!

We're still flooded in and cut off from town. Fortunately where I live, at the beach, our streets don't really get flooded. But the poor folks in town are innundated. My niece has water up to higher than the fence at her place and people are being evacuated from low-lying areas.

Lucky for me I had lots of stuff in the freezer and long-life milk etc. But we're running out of eggs and things because Mum keeps cooking :) Our little supermarket is open and they're expecting a food drop today so people are anxiously waiting for this. Folks in town are having there food delivered by the SES (State Emergency Services).

The top half of our state is now declared a natural disaster area.

Cross your fingers that the lows just off the coast don't develop into cyclones. There would be even more devastation...

Check out the photos. Anything related to our area has Ingham in the caption

Current Mood: awake
Current Location: at home

We have a cyclone heading straight for us. It's supposed to cross the coast just 20 kms away. It's only category 1 (5 is the highest), but that's still high winds.

Now I've got to go outside and pick up branches before they become missiles.

The guy hasn't come to fix my roof yet, so cross your fingers it stays on.

Current Mood: annoyed

I still have my verandah roof, or most of it thanks to the PTB. And thanks to all of you who replied to my last post. I love my flisters *hugs*.

The wind has died down a bit today and the sun is out now and then, so I can ring the roof guy to go and look at it. In the end I lost the gutter and a couple of slats and the rest thudded and flapped all night. I'll have to get it fastened down for the next cyclone I guess. Really I would like a whole new roof for that part of the house, but god knows what that would cost. Quote time is fast approaching I think.

We lost more of the big gum tree and oceans of leaves and branches are down all over the yard. It's going to take days to clean up *sigh*. Down at the beach we had a king tide along with the wind, and the sand was actually blown all over the road, it's a lovely mess!

bookishtype is still cut off and can't come to work, but the rest of us are here and ready for Craft activities this afternoon!!!

Current Mood: busy
Current Location: at my desk at work

The cyclone north of us was downgraded to a low, but you'd never know it. It's rained all day and the wind down here at the beach is positively gale force. Actually stronger than our last cyclone I think.

We lost part of our big gum tree this afternoon and just now the gutter fell off the verandah roof and the roof itself is not looking too stable. Since it's 11pm and more than a little windy, I can't get up and tie the roof down. Cross your fingers it's still there in the morning please???? If it goes, the roof would hit someone else's house and I don't want that to happen *worries*.

Current Mood: worried

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