More Cyclone Pics

Once it was safe to venture out, we went to check on the unit. It was fine apart from the back garage door which leaks so there was water everywhere in the garage. Not enough to do damage though.
Amazingly Mackay came through relatively unscathed. Most damage came from trees, either knocking down fences or landing on roofs. A couple of roofs blew off, but most people had prepared well and most of the work is in the aftermath. Chainsaws were going everywhere and there were long queues at the tips. There was quite a bit of local flooding as well. This is the gooseponds creek in flood along Malcomson Street. And from Bedford Road. All the walking track was under water.

After checking on the unit, we got into our working gear and dragged this tree out of the pool. There was another one underneath it.

It was covered in green ants too, that just made the job that much more unpleasant. They get very nasty when provoked. And dragging their tree out of the pool seemed to provoke them a lot! KISA chain sawed the trees up and the fallen palm stalks up and we stacked the debris by the pool fence.

Then we went to A&P'splace to help them clear their driveway. Their chainsaw runs on electricity. Which is great when there IS electricity!

Some very big trees had fallen down like this silky oak.

And lots of branches from nearby trees. They also had a power line down over the drive way. Thaey had dealt with that first.

Shredded leaves were blasted along the sides of the house. We had this at the unit too. Amazed the windows held out.

KISA, P and L clearing logs. A & I helped too, lucky they have lots of land to stack them up on.

I was feeling smug that we had palms and how well they held up in the storm, till I looked over A &P's drive and saw what fell on their neighbours'house! Two huge palms, just like the one in our front yard!

What a great start to Sunday morning for these guys. Water everywhere as well inside.

Getting there, those logs are very heavy. And the ground was muddy and slippery.

Once that was done we went home for a shower and tried to cool down with no fans and no air con. It was not easy.
I got out the crochet I am doing for Son 18. It is coming along well, but hard to do when it is hot and sticky.

I hope it is finished in time for winter in Brisbane. On Monday we checked on the unit again and WOW it had had the power reconnected! So we packed up what was left of the food that hadn't gone bad and a few clothes and pillows and went round there, unpacked the camping gear and set up camp in the air con! Bliss!! You will note such essentials such as coffee machine and kettle! It was very uncomfortable at the house as the humidity was in the 90s and not a breeze to speak of. And the neighbours were getting generators so it was getting noisy! And of course a TV. We had spent Sunday night trying to catch a breeze by candlelight playing I Spy With My Little Eye. It was good to finally see the news to see how Proserpine and Airlie fared as they copped the centre of the storm. My Step-sis and her kids picked this weekend to visit Mackay. Great timimg! Luckily the house where they were staying didn't lose their power at all, so they were relatively unaffected by the drama. They popped in to visit on Monday afternoon and check out the unit. Aren't these good looking young people???? Not surprising when you look at their beautiful mother. Who will not pose for photos so I had to sneak this shot.She prefers the other side of the camera.