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Sincerest best wishes to you Steve .. and to yours, and of course your wider community .. after enduring such a truly devastating weather event. 😮😪

Thanks P1. We are lucky/fortunate building a solid home, own water supply, going off grid etc. Our Caretaker Shamar just arrived home with another Guy that worked here through our construction and the sad stories they related with what they witnessed and the missing roofs and friends homes blown to the ground makes me feel lucky and our hearts go out to them.

Cheers, Steve.

Hello Steve,

That sounds absolutely terrifying.  I am so sorry you had to go through all of that. The damage to your home and community must be heartbreaking.

Sending you strength as you recover, and yes, the resilience of the Filipino people truly is inspiring. Stay safe!

Cheryl

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Thanks Cheryl, appreciate your thoughts and aside from roof and widow leaks it was all the fruit trees and gardens that took the brunt, flattened.The locals face much more damage but sounds like no loss of life in our district just the big clean up and repairs. the joys of living in the tropics.

Cheers, Steve.

You are most welcome, Steve. I completely understand, living in Mauritius, we also get our fair share of cyclones. 😓

I am really relieved to hear there was no loss of life in your area. Wishing you all the best for the clean-up and repairs. The tropics are beautiful, but they sure come with their wild side!

@bigpearl

Hoping for your fast recovery Steve. You seem very resilient yourself.

So sorry to hear that Steve, glad you made it through and yes, you earned that through all the hard work and supervision during your work/upgrades on the house. So glad no loss of life there.

Hope the clean up goes well, best wishes to you and Ben.

PNW

bigpearl said . . . . Last Friday morning at 2:30 am we were both up and alert and then the winds hit from the east, nasty and plenty of windows and new roof leaks even though it's a new roof.

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We also had leaky windows & roof. Not too bad about 10 minutes of mopping.

Thanks pnw and members for best wishes. You see this sort of thing on the news with typhoons, cyclones and hurricanes and is not the same as living through it, so sad for so many.

Yes the house is solid unlike many blown over and plenty without roofs here, the power is back on on the along the MacArthur highway now but not surrounds and some are expected to wait for 2 and 3 months before restoration including Bens family 20 kilometres south, we lent them the generator and that apparently is running 3 homes for basics (refrigerators, fans, lights and charging devices) and many of them lost roofs and flooding.

Stand alone power paid off big time here as after 9 days still no power for the locals, we had no phones or internet for 6 days, one of our Cignal dishes is gone and the other bent like a banana.

Yep we got off lightly compared to so many. Our worker here is cutting up all the light limbs on the fallen trees with a bolo and when we get back from Manila will drag out the chain saws and attack the big stuff, have a look at roof leaks and track down our glazier for the windows.

Our thoughts are with those less fortunate.

Be safe.

Cheers, Steve.

Best wishes Steve - I hope you get everything sorted when you get back from Manila and that the electricity comes back on line soon.

Off topic but it is snowing in parts of New South Wales and people there must be freezing their nuts off.

Thanks Cherry for your thoughts. We have plenty of power and 5 A/C's running here but most don't unless a generator or like us independent from the system with stand alone.

Those areas in Oz are used to snow and cold weather but this is unseasonal for those areas given the amount of falls.

Oz is a big country and suffers all manner of mother natures wrath. Just seems to be getting worse and more frequent no matter country.

Cheers, Steve.

@Cherryann01

Snowing in Queensland, not just New South Wales 🫣

Yes well, here an hour north of Melbourne, and winter, it's been cold and rainy 2-4 C nights and 10 -13 C days all week.