THURSDAY NIGHT: We are having unseasonable weather with flooding and high winds. Currently having our tenth power outage in 24 hours with large trees blown over lots of roads and in the parkland opposite our house we are out of our diabetic medicines and we can’t get to the chemist.
We have been advised to stay home for safety. I am so glad we are on a steep slope.
FRIDAY: We managed to get through to our closest chemist so we have our diabetic medicine again! We had dinner at Chris's son's as they had gas to cook with. They live near us!
We have no heating whatsoever and it's winter and the weather is freezing. My fibromyalgia has come out to play!
SATURDAY: So pleased that the power came back on last night.
SUNDAY AFTERNOON: We have just got the modem back on but the phones are still on SOS only.
The waters came up very high so that the cows couldn't get any food from their pasture behind our back garden. A farmer asked us if he could go through our back garden to leave some hay bales for them. Of course we said yes and he managed to place some in the small island of land in the middle of the flood waters.
I don't need food or medicine so it doesn't matter that we can't get out for the moment.
The farmer who came through to feed his cows was very nice and he said he's lived here all his life and has never seen the weather and floods as bad as this one. The weather bureau said the waters should recede soon.
This is the view today from our back porch. The hay was delivered to the island strip of land because through habit that's where the cows were plodding looking for feed. The farmer's house is in the background.
