Hey everyone! I am here and safe and well! We are at least 9 hours drive away from the cyclone thus far. My kids Dad on the other hand, lives directly in its path, and I am thanking the Gods the kids are now back safely with me as they just spent the last 4 weeks with him!
Project flood photos went well, and I've done two return trips and another planned for tomorrow. It is all coming together really well, just still trying to source a distributor, but the artwork is looking great and website should be up very soon... Can't show you any images just yet, they are all under wraps for now... On a personal note, it was SO hard returning home, I just didn't want to leave them out there. :( I wanted to pack everyone in my car and bring them home for a big home cooked meal. I can't begin to explain the devastation. The worst part is that people like us can go out there, help out and return to nice comfy homes. Even the Army only goes out there for 7 days at a time and then is replaced by a "fresh" unit, so that they can have a break. But the families, are living it 24/7 and don't get any respite. It is a sad, eerie, haunting place out there.... I have had a hard time tolerating my own kids since returning - their squabbles just seem so trivial compared to what the Grantham kids are dealing with. I keep getting so short tempered with them as I compare their lives with the kids out there... :( There were 5 funerals this week, 3 of which were kids less than 6 years old. On Monday, they laid to rest a family of two kids, and their mum, leaving only their Dad and one other sibling surviving, both of whom witnessed the rest of their family drown. Such a sad time for them... Anyways, I am safe and well, just up to my neck with editing and preparing for the big AIPP event this weekend (http://www.hotd.aippblog.com/)... Thanks so much for all of your concerns, it is nice to feel luuuuuurved! :) Tan.x. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of P. J. Alling Sent: Wednesday, 2 February 2011 1:07 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: OT: Thoughts with Queenslanders (TC Yasi) They probably spent the last three years praying for rain. You should always be careful of what you ask for. On 2/1/2011 8:18 PM, Brian Walters wrote: > On Tue, 01 Feb 2011 14:10 -0600, "Darren Addy"<[email protected]> > wrote: >> Australia's "Katrina": http://tinyurl.com/3k839 >> >> Quote: >> THIS IMPACT IS LIKELY TO BE MORE LIFE THREATENING THAN ANY >> EXPERIENCED DURING RECENT GENERATIONS. >> >> Peak gusts of 174mph and landfall near high tide (15-18 hrs from now) >> are feared. Yasi is now Category 5 and will not encounter cooler >> water as it approaches the coast. > > > Yeah - I don't know what the Queenslanders have done to anger the > weather gods but, after this hits, virtually the whole state will have > suffered some sort of major flooding and storm damage in the last month. > Apart from the wind strength, the cyclone is expected to cross the > coast coinciding with high tide. > > I'm not aware of any PDMLers directly in the path of Yasi - both John > and Tan are well south. > > > > > Brian > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Brian Walters > Western Sydney Australia > http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ -- Where's the Kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering Kaboom! --Marvin the Martian. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
