Crazy week of weather!

Since I last posted, 

Queensland had to deal with some 

very nasty weather when

Cyclone Oswald threatened our North Queensland towns. 

It became an unstable storm cell, 

listed as Category 1 on a cyclone scale,

and slowly moved down the Queensland coastline 

 with gale-force winds and rain. 

Some areas suffered severe flooding 

similar to the floods of January 2011.

If that wasn't enough, 

SIX tornadoes developed and wreaked havoc 

further north of Brisbane.

One morning, we awoke to find that even 

BRISBANE was on tornado alert! 

I've never known that to happen before. 

Bundaberg and other towns are still inundated with flood waters 

and thousands of people have been displaced. 

Many had to be rescued from rooftops.

Death toll stands at six.

It's heart-wrenching! 

Queensland now faces a major clean-up.

We have been told to conserve water 

as one of the water treatment plants had to shut down 

due to the volume of mud and silt that was 

washed into the Brisbane River. 

Needless to say, 

people went into a panic and bought up ALL of

the bottled water from supermarket shelves.

160,000 homes lost power and, 

as of last night, some were still waiting for 

power to be restored. 

Friends of family have been without power 

since Saturday, poor things.

I am very grateful to live where we do 

as it seems we are in a fairly safe and sound area 

when it comes to flooding and power. 

That said, there were road blocks due to flooding 

not far at all from where we live.

Due to all the cyclonic weather 

sea foam developed at some of our beaches.

This video was taken at Alexandra Headland 

and shows bystanders, including two policemen, 

getting the surprise of their lives while 

watching a bus drive through the sea foam. 

A near miss for sure!

If you can't view it here,

try THIS direct link to YouTube.

Definitely nothing as interesting

going on in our own backyard. 

I put my potted plants outside 

to drink up some rainwater.

They LOVE rainwater! 

As parts of our gutters overflowed, 

I decided to catch me some rainwater 

for later use in the garden.

We ran out of containers to fill waaaaaaaay before it stopped raining 

but at least we saved a fair amount. 

Even the grass is now greening up
from the horrid, scorched brown colour it was before.

To end this post with a feel good mood.

I chose this video which shows how 

a random act of kindness 

can flow on and on.....ENJOY!

If you can't view it here,

try THIS direct link to YouTube.

Aaron started back at school yesterday after 

the annual school break. 

My baby is in Year 9 now!

It's time to get back to a regular routine so 

you should be seeing more posts from me.

Have a lovely week!

~ Love, light and peace ~