Glad you are ok. Must have been quite a nightmare to sit through that!

thank you for the update, good to read you are ok !

Positive thoughts coming your way Chris. When we had huge storms 18 months ago Rosie came up to us as I use bottled gas to cook on and we have a solid fuel fire. Had to keep the fire lowish though as now power to work the heating. They are still working on the cables that caused the problems when they were damaged in the winds and town still has many signs of the loss of trees. We also found our phone was affected, mobiles too as no power BUT our 60 yr old dial phone still worked. Hope all is well and take care

Good to hear you and your family are alright. We only have very soggy land no damage thank goodness.. Marian

Thank goodness! I'd been thinking of you and your kookaburras, Chris. Glad to hear you're safe and well.

Dear Chris, I've been thinking of you. I am glad you are ok. Hope everything come back to normal. Love, Yoriko

Pleased to hear that you are all safe. Hope everything will be back to normal soon or close to normal soon. Hugs Marg

Stay safe. God be with you ALL through this disaster.

So glad to hear you are ok Chris, stay safe!!

Glad to hear you are okay Chris. Iknow what it's like not to have power. Several times in the past we have had to go into town to a Motel because of power outage. We are also total electric . /Lillian

Glad all is better. Candlelight sandwiches sound so romantic!

Happy to hear your power is back on. We don't realize how important hydro is until we go without for a day or so. Hope your daughter's get theirs back on soon. Saw on the TV that you had violent storms there. Hope is has now passed and everyone is okay. Hugs Lynn

OMG glad thats over Chris and good to know you are fine and power is back! We get so handicapped without electricity. ...cant imagine how difficult it must have been for you and your family!

So glad to hear you are okay. The power of the weather makes gives me a renewed respect for the force of nature. So glad for the power of prayer to help us through difficult times.
Hugs
Terri

So glad you are all okay...and that you have your power back...such an ordeal...

oh how scary for all Chris I am glad that you are all ok. Yesterday we had rain (lots of it) then the sun was shining then we had hail & last night we had a snow storm YES I said SNOW STORM! Prior to this we were enjoying typical spring weather sunny & chilly but Spring jacket chilly NOT WINTER COATS COLD! sigh........The Ozone layer must be in serious need of repair to cause this much damage all around the world..... ~hugs~

So glad to hear you're okay. I saw some reports on this morning's news and it looked horrid. Hugs and prayers, Deb

My heart goes out to you. It is so scary to live through a nasty storm like this and to see the damage it has caused. I'm so grateful you are safe. I think you made the best of it during meals. I love the thought of sandwiches by candle light.

Thankful that you and your loved ones came through OK. Pray that clean up is quick.

Thank goodness you are all safe. Hugs Sarah

Good to hear the worst is over and it is time for cleanup. It is sad about the Gum trees, is the nest affected and will your tree survive?

Shocking have been watching on TV. Glad you have power back. Now for the cleanup.. hugs

I am so glad to hear that you and your family are safe! Take care of yourselves and know that prayers are with you!
Hugs, Nadyne

Good that you are well. I hope you opened some wine to have with your sandwiches before it went bad. :)
My heart goes out to all of those in the path of this devastating storm.

Very romantic of you Chris, I think they call that getting back to basics! But good to hear that all is well and what's a little food when it could have been a lot worse.

I was pleased to hear you are OK. Have been there done that 2 1/2 days with no power thing. Glad to hear the kookaburra's tree survived reasonably well. It was hard to believe you were having all that bad weather up there,when we had such beautiful calm warm sunny days down here in Tassie. What a mess to clean up. I am feeling so sorry for those who had water through their houses. I saw some on TV last night. Mud everywhere. You will be able to enjoy a lovely hot cut of tea now with your sandwiches. Hugs Shirley

So glad you and family are all good. You don't realize how much you appreciate the electricity until you don't have it huh?
It all looked so shocking on telly. Hope that sort of weather is goon for good for all of NSW. Do take care, hugs Kerry..

Good to hear you are back on the grid. We were very lucky. We had bad leaks in the roof six months ago. I don't mind a big storm, but I objected to having rain on the inside of the back door. The builder rang us to check how it was working/holding up. All was well. Took hubby to the doctor on Wednesday and he wouldn't get into the car in the yard as he said it was like standing on a sponge. He sank and the water came up. So he hoped in once I was on the street.
The roads were very slippery on Tuesday. Normally that much rain (24 hours of solid rain) washes all the gunk out of the bitumen, but for some reason that didn't happen. Roads were dry today. There were evacuations a mile or so away from us where the area is level with the top of the river. Most of houses there are on tall stumps.
Hubby just rang me and the sun is shining at home.

glad you are ok Chris, it looked realy bad, still houses crashing into the water just saw one on tv, hope everything will get back to normal soon...wendy

Thanks for everyone's thoughts and prayers. I've been with Amy all day and stayed at their house as they had to go to the airport to collect their new baby puppy dog - a mini Groodle ( a cross between a Golden Retriever and a Poodle - she is absolutely gorgeous! As Amy had collected me I stayed at their place and lo and behold at 2.30 their power came on. So I cooked some Spaghetti Bolognaise and put on their first load of washing - she had 5 loads to do! We got to finish 2 and hang them out when Trevor arrived, so I went home with him. Dana and Jason are still without power and they all came over last night for showers etc. This is just the worst storm I've ever been in. I pity the poor people of Queensland when they have their thunderstorms they have rain for days on end.

It's beautiful here now and it looks like our ANZAC DAY (tomorrow) memorial will be held in perfect weather. Trev and Ben will be attending the dawn service. I think I'll have a rest as we were up just after 6.00 this morning under the house pumping out some excess water. Trev then laid 4 loads of sand along the edge of the walls. It's been very tiring, but we are one of the lucky ones.

Once again thanks everyone for your concern, love Chris

Glad to know that you are alright and returning to normality.
Thank you for the delightful picture of Ophelie with the puppy.
Hugs, Lidia

Don't know where my comment (and your answer) went, but I am glad things are slowly going back to normal. I hope Dana will have power too soon.
Lovely puppy!!