[supernova1965 (Warren)]

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I'm back

Been waiting for our power to come back on. It's a mess up here. All our big trees in the backyard are trashed. We were really lucky...if the tornado had've come about 150m further down our road, we'd be in the same spot as those up the end of the street. The houses are trashed, completely. Many others closer to us lost roof iron and everyone lost trees. When it happened, I kne w something was wrong as I first saw lightning whilst I was in the toilet at about 4:50am. When I went back to bed, the lightning started to turn green and there was a booming sound....then the wind hit. The lightning looked like someone had struck a huge arc on an electric welder. The rain was horizontal and I can tell you now the wind was a lot faster than 120kmh. I had heaps of trouble trying to close our windows, which had blown out, and the rain was just bucketing through the windows. Luckily, I had closed them in time before everything got soaked, but things still got damp. I can tell you, compared to Yasi, this was a lot more scary. We got 190kmh winds here in Yasi....anyone who said this wasn't as fast was either lying, didn't know what they were on about or blind. The trees were being ripped about a lot more than they had during Yasi. Most of the palm trees around the area were laying nearly right over in the wind, which they didn't do in Yasi. Our house literally shook and moved about on the foundations, but luckily didn't do too much damage. The main area of destruction is bad. Whole houses were blown away like nothing more than matchsticks. Poor people there are going to have a hard time getting things back together. I hope the government does everything to get them back on their feet.

Well, I have some piccies of the disaster that I'll post on here soon. I hope we never have to go through that again. I'd rather go through a cyclone, to tell you the truth. At least you know a cyclone is coming. A tornado just appears out of nowhere and the winds are far more destructive because of the small size and intensity of the storm. Just glad to still be here in one piece.