Wild and Woolly

Wow what an exciting 24hours of weather! I can't believe the amount of garbage we have had lately. We had two powercuts late afternoon yesterday and got to use the candles that I bought specially. It was such a soothing light with the candles that I kind of regret that power didn't stay off longer.

I jumped to completely the wrong conclusions too when I had just lit the candle for the boys and told them not to muck about near it and gone back to the kitchen to get another one when I heard a huge crash and immediately started yelling at them for being idiots. Ooops, one of the concrete tiles had blown off the roof and smashed on the deck outside the lounge. We woke this morning to find at least one more smashed tile, the olive tree uprooted and half a gum tree fallen down.

We heard from the tenants in our place in Whangarei and one of the avocado trees had given way. We headed up there today as we were supposed to be staying over at the lakes with some friends. Very weird driving down our driveway and not being able to go in the house. It seems that the avocado wasn't the only tree not to make it with 3 of our aka akas snapped in half too. A bit of a clean up to do.

We tried to make it over to Dargaville but got turned back as one of the bridges was completely under water. We figured we would try and get there via the Brynderwyns and then we heard that they were expecting the town to flood tonight. We thought better of that plan and headed back home again. We might try again tomorrow.