Monday, March 20, 2006

Safe and sound :)

Hi folks,
Well, the imminent danger has passed and we in Townsville were very lucky to just feel the effects of the very edge of cyclone Larry as he crossed the coast about 250ml North of here, at Innisfail, the town where I grew up. We had a lot of rain and strong winds overnight and today, but didn't even suffer any flooding in our area.
Further north is a different story, you have probably seen the same pictures I have on the News, some of which are very familar to me, except there are trees, walls and rooves in all the wrong places! The devastation of homes is one thing, but the complete destruction of people's livelihood in flattened fields of bananas and sugar cane is going to hit the area very hard.
(that's all the country I described as the most beautiful North Queensland Scenery in a previous post - I won't be able to get you those photos quite as I expected!)
But we may still head up there this weekend if the Cyclone Wati doesn't play games with us as well.
Thanks for the prayers, please now pray for the huge clean up operation that is to come.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

So glad things are okay for you, Cat... we were getting a bit worried last night. :) Glad you're safe! :)

Nahtay said...

Yeah, glad ol' Larry didn't blow you off that bit of land over there... ;-)