I'm at Arana Hills, we got hammered. The powerlines were shredded, broken in four places along one street alone. A large tree went sailing down the street (river is more like it) parallel to mine and slammed into two parked cars, trees down everywhere, floods, we've had sirens off and on for the past 24hours, all traffic lights out, power out, trains out, it's almost endless. The Gap copped the worst of it.

I can't complain Mike, there are others here who had far worse than me. Kind of heart breaking to see my Brodak kits floating around inside my flat though. The biggest surprise of all is that the kits are fine, I have dried them out already and I'm just waiting for the cartons to dry so I can re-pack them. I thought they would have warped beyond use. Unbelieveable.