BATTERED BY A CYCLONE

Home alone with my granddaughter Sharny in October 2018, the town where I live in Queensland was battered by a destructive cyclone (hurricane).

We huddled together in the lounge room with our little dogs Mille and Marley, while wind, rain and hail raged outside causing a multitude of damage. 

Our home was blessed to receive only roof damage, while  friends south of us experienced broken windows and more. 

Our gold town sits 77 klm (48 miles) from the Pacific Ocean coast and since moving back from Tennessee in 2007, this was the worst weather pummeling to hit land and devastate.

Yes, we do get monstrous floods that cover the town in a deluge of water and they are disastrous. These cut us off from civilisation for days.

After waiting seven months, our turn came yesterday when the tradies arrived to give us a new roof …

I nabbed Laurenzo (with the great dreadlocks) for a pic with Sharny.

What a great bunch of young blokes  and such tireless workers.

The old tin was levered off and the new shiny green applied.

 Thank you to our TRADIES, Laurenzo, Maverick, Nick and Rory who worked tirelessly in the heat to cover our heads.

It's looking good.

 Specific clothing is worn as protection from our fierce sun.
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As a retired health professional I like to know my own concreter son is kept as cool as possible when working in the blazing heat.

As described in WEB M.D.  "Prolonged or intense exposure to hot temperatures can cause heat-related illnesses such as heat exhaustion, heat cramps, and heat stroke (also known as sun stroke). As your body works to cool itself under extreme or prolonged heat, blood rushes to the surface of your skin. As a result, less blood reaches your brain, muscles, and other organs." 
Dehydration:  Can lower bloodpressure to the point of now return.. I have watched the montior in Emergency - fall to a point where a patient almost died while I hurried to get an I.V. line in and saline infusing. 

Lastly. God rewards those who work well. 
"Whatever you do, do it enthusiastically, as something done for the Lord and not for men, knowing that you will receive the reward of an inheritance from the Lord. You serve the Lord Christ." – Colossians 3:23-24

 Jesus was a worker.
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CYCLONE WARNING, QUEENSLAND

This is terrible and terrifying for many.
Cyclone Yasi.

We are expecting the largest cyclone EVER to hit Cairns, northern Queensland at midnight tonight.
The Biggest in Generations.
This cyclone is larger than cyclone Tracy that squashed Darwin in 1974.

Monster Category 5.

Winds will be up to 300klm/hour (186 miles).
It is a 400klm (249 miles) in diameter.

The eye is expected to be about 80klms.
Everyone has been advised to evacuate.
Beautiful Cairns is expected to go underwater.

For hundreds of miles down the Queensland coast everyone is heeding the warning.

We should be safe.
However, everyone has been warned to be careful.

"I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go,
and I will bring you back to this land.
I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you."
Genesis 28:15

For those who belong to the Lord...we are never losers.
He is near us here on earth, or, we are gathered with Him in Heaven.

 Faith Gives Re-assurance