The Cleanup

This weekend has been spent still cleaning up the garden following the storm a couple of weeks ago. We've had more rain since, so the ground hasn't dried out much (neither has our artificial grass which now has weeds growing in it as its so full of soil!). It's been a boiling hot day today - William decided to go skinny-dipping at 7.30 this morning and we were all in by midday. The rest of our street has already got all their Christmas lights up, so we'll be following suit sometime this week - looking forward to William's reaction to the Christmas Tree!

More Post Storm Stuff

Its amazing how the day can change so dramatically over the period of a few hours. Here we are enjoying a fun afternoon by the pool under clear blue skies. Also, we'd almost finished painting and renovating this area; it was beginning to look half respectable.




And then a few hours later the sky turned green (yes, green). Its a sign of a potentially damaging hail storm and everyone puts their vehicles under any cover available. Then the storm started. The people in the know rated it as a Category 2 Cyclone. Unfortunately our beautiful back garden turned into a bed of mud and debris and suffered the most damage. By this time we'd also lost all power and phone lines.




Half an hour later we gathered with our friends from the street at the bottom of our drive discussing how bad the storm was and the carnage around us. A car was seen floating down the street, the dog park was destroyed but at least the kids were enjoying themselves.

Post Storms

The news of Brisbane's biggest storm in 30 years may not have reached the rest of the world, but we were hit pretty hard last Sunday afternoon. Cyclonic winds, rain and hail the size of golf balls battered down on the house and scared the hebegebes out us. The power was out, the phones were down and Niagra Falls appeared in our back garden.




Click here for the link to the local newspaper website showing some pictures taken around Brisbane following the storm.