Yasi is a huge, dangerous cyclone

[wally peat]

Ern, I've thought about it for 24 hours and decided it's a much less sad tale than the one about having to replace all the electronics in the Stubby, or even the whole shed if the big storm surge had eventuated, so I'll always be sad, but there's not much point in being unhappy. As a region, North Qld got off extremely lighly (sorry if you live in Cardwell or Tully), so I'm trying to see this minor loss in the context of what I still have - a home, a community to live in and a job to go to.

On a brighter note, as part of the cleanup, I opened all the switchgear on the Stubby to check for moisture and all that was in there was dust and the same air that it had when it left your place. That machine is a cross between a sherman tank and a submarine!

[munruben]

You gotta be quick. It's sorta like going to a sale and seeing something on special at a real bargain price and saying "I'll think about that for a while and might come back and get it later" You can bet your bottom dollar, it will be gone by the time you get back.

[Dengue]

Lifting furniture out of the way in my water logged bedroom, I did my back big time. Went to the physio, and he commented that he is treating a lot of injuries right now from people hurting themselves cleaning up.

Out of action for a week, and a painful weekend coming up, according to the physio

[rsser]

Rotten luck Jill. Hit the Celebrex for a few days perhaps.

Peter, glad to hear the Stubby is fine. Yes, sure is a monster. Sealed base with bottom plate 3/8" thick. You could anchor your shed to it.

[Spanner69]

For the past five years I have worked at the university here in Townsville, and every day I have walked past a big eucalypt near the student mall and silently drooled over the biggest burl I have ever seen in my life. We are talking about a burl at least six feet up the trunk, about four feet across, and a metre thick. So yesterday I'm back at work and as I walk the well worn route there's something missing from the skyline.


I also have drooled about that particular burl. When Is aw it had come down and was already gone I was hopeing that someone worthy had got it because I would have cried tears in bucket loads if it had been mulched.

[rsser]

Yeah, the routine chipping of downed trees by local councils drives me nuts.

With inside contacts some woody's clubs salvage some of the timber but it's a tragedy to see the rest wasted.

[Bob38S]

Yeah, the routine chipping of downed trees by local councils drives me nuts.

With inside contacts some woody's clubs salvage some of the timber but it's a tragedy to see the rest wasted.

Totally agree with the above.

In the past when I have "chipped" council on the same I was told it had to do with workplace health and safety, clearing the "debris" out of people's yards, roads etc as soon as possible and that they didn't want amateurs getting in the way as possibly someone could get sued. just the same old same old - unfortunately I have no answers.

By the way - this of course would have nothing to do with it - our council takes all "green waste", mulches it and then sells it back to the ratepayers