[glend (Glen)]

Good work Allan. I am one of the few that still have power in my area, and yet am probably best equipped to be without. There is apparently little power on the peninsula here and the Bonnell Bay shopping centre is closed (imagine the food spoiling in Coles). I drove over to Morisett and found a crowd scene not unlike a disaster movie. Big queues at the petrol stations, the only food store open was Woolies and they had only emergency power (no store lights, no open chillers working); All the meat and other perishables had been stripped from the open coolers and thrown in trolleys that were just sitting in the back room with no cooling. Much of this stuff is sploit and will have to be thrown away. The customers were streaming into Woolies expecting things to be as normal and got a real shock. All the bread was gone, they can't bake anymore, and have not had a logistics delivery.

I have run a couple of long extension cords across the street to help out the elderly couple who live there, at least they can run their fridge again.
Don't have to worry about the cords across the road because the fallen tree makes sure no one will run over it.