And I missed it all...

Whilst I was away in Brissie for the last few days, Rocky experienced some very stormy weather especially last Sunday when a number of storm cells passed over the city all within a 7 hour period. They experienced 7 storms in that time, and a mini cyclone passed right through our neighbourhood leaving a trail of destruction.

This is what happened to our neighbour two doors down.


Chloe and Steve heard it come down. We had a mini cyclone pass by with winds over 100kms per hour.

Totally upr rooted the tree

and totally blocked off our street from all traffic


It was a good thing that the little white car that is usually parked accross the road was not home, as the tree fell right where it is normally parked. Bet the owners were thankful as it is normally always there.

It pulled down power lines in the street, and took out the power to our neighbours house. We were without power for 8 hours. They were without power for 24 hours.
The power guys were there pretty quickly though

Then the council arrived to chop it all up and mulch it and cart it away

They had to bring a bob cat in to lift the roots out of the ground. It was quite an operation.
Mulching it all up and sweeping the street, so that we could get in and out again. They had it all finished before dark. Great job by all considering it was a Sunday afternoon.

I must admit it made me SO thankful that we had taken out our big gum tree earlier in the year. It all seemed quite bizarre, as I was in Brissie at the time, and we had a big storm down there. My son in law was explaining to me how different storms were down there to our home towns up north. He had only finished telling me that he actually felt safe in storms when he was at home and in Rocky, but in Brisbane even going inside did not make it safe. (They had a huge gum tree fall through the roof of their home not long after they moved it, and spent over three months in a motel whilst all the damage was repaired. It was only 10 minutes after this conversation with him that Steve rang to tell me about the tree blowing over in our street.

Sneak preview of the December decorations on my little silver tree... Picked them up on my trip to Brissie and they look great. Will show you a proper photo in the next few days.

Must go..... the house cleaning awaits. The next week will see us spring cleaning for Christmas.
I love this time of year....