Ugh. Do I have work tomorrow, or not? Apparently we’re ‘closed until further notice’. I guess I’ll be ringing around in the morning to find out…

(Local update: severe winds, lots and lots and LOTS of rain, flash flooding, power flickering. Fucking Debbie.)

Hope you’re staying OK, @determamfidd and @bubbysbub

Augh. *hugs Fee* sorry, hon. That is extremely crappy. I hope you’re okay.

Yeah, I know I don’t have work tomorrow! Gaaaaaah, I could have used the extra dosh before the holidays, too. Same here: heavy rains, flash flooding, lots of wind, yup. Thunder and lightning, very very frightening!

Stay safe, stay dry, @morvidra! @bubbysbub, how you holding up?

bubbysbub:

@determamfidd -you saw that school’s closed tomorrow as well? School holidays started early this year, lols.

YEP. Oh joy, stuck in the house with a rambunctious toddler!!

Hope you’re doing ok, @bubbysbub, and that your lot are managing the cabin fever 🙂

Debbie hit the GBR too? Fuck damn it. My friend’s been calling it the ‘soccer mum from hell’ and I think I might be starting to agree. Hope you and yours make it through this okay

‘the soccer mum from hell’ – LMAAAAAAAO oh my god, PERFECT.

Yeah, just read it on the Brisbane Times – it got the GBR, apparently. Because destroying people’s homes was apparently not enough for Debbie.

(I’m still trying to get over the idiots who went surfing during a cyclone, are they SERIOUS)

You too, Nonnie. Stay safe, stay dry, all the best to everyone out there watching the sky piss down on us. I’m off to pick up my Dwarfling from daycare now.

Rain, Rain, Go Away

bubbysbub:

determamfidd:

So, Australia just got pummelled by a category 4 cyclone, Cyclone Debbie. It’s been downgraded now, but it’s still at tropical storm status. The Whitsundays and parts of NE Queensland are pretty much matchsticks right now. Roofs torn off, no power, no water, the works. The army and emergency services were on standby, and they’re apparently on the move today, we’re told.

(to add insult to injury, it has also smashed parts of the Great Barrier Reef that had escaped coral bleaching. Thanks a fuckin bundle, Debbie.)

We’re expected to get torrential rain, gale-force winds, and flooding all down the SE coast from lunchtime onwards. Schools are closed, etc. I live in the SE corner of Queensland, so think of me today and hope I don’t disappear under all this bloody water.

it’s fuckin wet.

( @morvidra, @bubbysbub – stay safe.)

Ugh, yes, @determamfidd we’re DROWNING (not literally, not yet. Standing at the window watching the creek carefully, though, EEEEP). Hubs is trying to convince higher ups to let him shut down work for the day and send everyone home before the region floods (they’re in fucking Indooroopilly– which literally means ‘gully of running water’, because our stupid white settler ancestors were fucking morons), but the higher ups are in Perth, and are sort of ‘eh?’, so he’s got to stay. AAAAARGGGH!

Least I didn’t have to try and get the kids to school, hahaha.

Fucking Debbie.

(@determamfidd @morvidra we have already had one power outage (southside bris), and lights are flickering, and Mackay and northern areas have had power out all morning. Get prepped, darlin’s.)

damn, @bubbysbub – hope your hubby’s boss lets them go before lunchtime, when the front is meant to hit. The roads are already a mess out there.

OOOOH DAMN – i forgot you said you were right next to the creek!! Got my fingers and toes and eyes crossed for you. We’re watching the easement by the fence with worried eyes also. Backyard is already a bit of a lake.

(lmao – I missed the 7am news announcement about the schools, so I went trundling in to work as always! Only to turn right back around again. At least I got to get one of our awesome school cafeteria coffees from our coffee guru?)

No power outage here yet. Probably just a matter of time though.

Rain, Rain, Go Away

So, Australia just got pummelled by a category 4 cyclone, Cyclone Debbie. It’s been downgraded now, but it’s still at tropical storm status. The Whitsundays and parts of NE Queensland are pretty much matchsticks right now. Roofs torn off, no power, no water, the works. The army and emergency services were on standby, and they’re apparently on the move today, we’re told.

(to add insult to injury, it has also smashed parts of the Great Barrier Reef that had escaped coral bleaching. Thanks a fuckin bundle, Debbie.)

We’re expected to get torrential rain, gale-force winds, and flooding all down the SE coast from lunchtime onwards. Schools are closed, etc. I live in the SE corner of Queensland, so think of me today and hope I don’t disappear under all this bloody water.

it’s fuckin wet.

( @morvidra, @bubbysbub – stay safe.)