Good to hear you are home safe, Tan...
very very sad stuff there indeed
ann
Tanya Love wrote:
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
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Brian Walters
Western Sydney Australia
http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/
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