Highest I saw on the wind meter while walking the boundaries was 42.7mph, but mostly it's gusting in the 25-35mph area. Difficult to walk into, and the raindrops hit you in the face like hail.
A neighbour has lost his five-bay equipment shed
Tore the footings out of the ground and twisted the 5"-diameter poles into knots, throwing the whole lot over a fence into another paddock. Another neighbour has a large pine dropped across his back boundary fence, and we've got one tree that's flattened the boundary fence at the far end of our house block. The power grid is down (we're off-grid). I walked down to check another neighbour's sheds as they work weekdays, all good there thankfully. She pulled up moments before I got there so I said hello, and she discovered their power was out. I headed back to find the road blocked midway between our driveway and theirs, where she had driven through maybe three minutes earlier, with her children. That's a very close call! SES already cleared a bigger tree that fell this morning sixty meters south of this one, so the quarry trucks could get through. A quarry truck even without a trailer has no hope of turning around here.
When I finally got to my office, my computer was down and is not happy about booting up, so that may be an issue I'll have to sort later
To top it off, both screws fell out of one of the arms of my reading glasses, in my pocket, no sign of the screws of course. Bloody things are so small they should have atomic numbers, in the decimals
I was smart enough to buy a decent spectacle repair kit years ago, but the miracle was that I actually knew where it was
So I spent thirty minutes, without glasses, finding the correct invisible screw to fit the invisible holes! Would make a good Taskmaster challange (British TV show pitting inept comedians against simple tasks), except the swearing would make it a silent movie I hope everybody is doing okay.
Stay safe!
