A big blow.

Yesterday we went to pick up Alex as we were baby sitting while his parents went to the computer market. Beckys hard drive was on the way out and they had to get a new one. As we got closer to home the wind speed increased and as far as the eye could see there was a combination of smoke and dust filling the sky. The bush fire season has started early this year. By the time we got home the wind was gusting to 102kph. Lots of trees down, no electricity and debris everywhere. We suffered no damage other than fruit being blown from the trees and lots of small branches to clean up.





This is actually the front garden of next door. It doesnt look like a very big branch but it was. The Ute is now full and ready for its first outing to the tip.


Of course with the power off we had no air conditioning and it was 32 deg. Eventually it came back on after a couple of hours but as I write this there are still thousands of homes without electricity. All the traffic lights in the area are out and the police are directing traffic. Its probably the hardest they have had to work for some time!


When the wind dropped a bit, my helper and I took the wheelbarrow and collected up all the fallen grapefruits.



But look Grampy, this orange tastes better than the grapefruit.



Thanks for the help Mate!