Saturday, June 9
Newcastle-on-sea
Adam and Nicholas were planning to put new insulation in the roof of Cathie's house in Hamilton this weekend but it looks like the agenda has changed somewhat. Cathie's backyard is under water and her chooks are standing on the roof of their shed. The beautiful frangipani tree at the rear of the house is at a 45 degree lean and, according to a report from Amanda, Adam is waiting for the SES to arrive to cut it down before it falls on the neighbour's house. In the meantime, a tree from the neighbour's house on the other side has fallen into Cathie's yard and destroyed the clothes line. All of this is, of course, a microcosm of the mess the rest of Newcastle is in. How about that ship on Nobbies? Amanda tells me half a dozen ambulances just floated away in the downpour and were looted for drugs and electrical equipment before they could be recovered. It could take a while to have a first-hand blog account of the action as there's no power in the town but I'm sure Adam will be on the case soon.
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Spoke to Cathie today (Sunday) and all seems to be under control. A bloke rang the local radio station and said his house was okay but if anyone needed help from someone with a chainsaw, he was available. Cathie rang him and he turned up and cut down the leaning tree in the back yard. Newcastle is like that. Stuart's house was spared but only just - the water level came up to the base of the house and their pool and garage were flooded. Marriannee had to spend three hours in the New Lambton pub because she couldn't pilot their 4WD any farther on her way home from work. Amazing scenes on TV..
We were in Margaret River blissfully unaware of the devestation in Newcastle. Thanks Marianne for checking up on the Doohans. The water came half way up the front lawn but the worst outcome was that Paul had to miss his Saturday afternoon session of tennis with the 'Cheerful Charlies'.
Ash & Cathie
WOW! I'm actually jealous. I'm slightly obsessed with natural disasters, so much so that I was late for work by about an hour once because there was a doco on tv about volcanoes that I couldn't draw myself away from. Although, I'm sure there are some people in Newcastle who don't share my enthusiasm, and I'm glad to hear that there hasn't been too much damage to the roff camp! But I would like to see some pictures if anyone has any...
www.smh.com.au has some pretty good photos if you would like to see what has been happening in Newcastle. We are fine and consider ourselves very lucky. Thanks for all your thoughts.
Marianne
Natural disasters aside, I used to wait 4 hours outside the New Lambton pub waiting for a ride home from cricket.
Acually, Damian, Dad used to leave you outside the pub for four hours while he slipped home to have "quality" time with his good children and then reluctantly had to go back and pick you up before it got too dark. I think this is known as either realism or revisionism depending on whether your name is Damian or anyone else in the world.
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