Sydney storm 2015!! (Back date 27 April 2015)

The internet connection is back!! ^_^

Oh how difficult it is to live without internet/phone connection for the last week.

As some of you all might have already knew, Sydney was hit by a once-in-a-decade 'mini cyclone' last week, starting on Sunday afternoon.

Sunday on the 19th, started Sunny, with cloudy afternoon. By evening, strong wind and rain starts pouring down. The wind was unsually strong. And through the night, wind just kept howling and rain just kept pouring. 

By Monday, the sky was overcast. Wind started lashing through the sky. With strong wind blowing the rain side ways. I had a patient that day around noon. I prayed that the sky will clear a 'patch' so I won't get too wet. My prayer was answered with getting just a drizzle! ^_^

But however, the rain and wind never stopped. Throughout the whole day, it just got stronger and stronger. Thank God thought it was the start of a new school term, most public schools had a day off. So there's not as many traffic on the road. If not there'd be more traffic accident.

The night was spent in my in-law's place, as the wind and rain made things difficult to travel between the houses. Plus we were worried that the neighbours's gum tree would start dropping big branches like previously. And guess what. Many trees along the street started falling!

This is the scene on Tuesday morning from my in-law's place. A tree across the road at the national park had collapsed right across the road. The SES (State emergency service people), came in their yellow ponchos, looked at the tree, and decided to just push it to the side. 

The weather was so cold and wet. Many places were flooded.

On Tuesday morning, Eric went over to take a look and see if there were any damage from the gum tree, but was surprised to see this sight.

The neighbours's pine tree has fallen!! (The gum tree still standing strong there) Eric went to the neighbours's to check if they needed any help. And only to realised that the parents had gone over to japan for holiday, while their 14 yo son is home alone!! We were quite worried that the tree was leaning onto the power line, and the whole front yard was flooded. It took Eric a whole day to get through to the energy company, to let them know and ask them to come and cut off the power to their house, for fear of electrocution when the power line break under the tree's weight.

Debris everywhere from the strong wind and rain.

A tree fell from the forest across the road.

The neighbour's fallen tree root. The root ball is quite shallow. Thank God that it did not damage any house. 

Kcan