Did you guys miss me, you probably didn't even know I was gone!

We just got our power back on after a day and a bit of no power. They expected it to be off for three days, so we are happy with that.

A storm ripped through here last nite and tore roofs, smashed windows, bent clothes lines and stripped every leaf off every tree in the town, plus lost of branches and even trees de-rooted out of the ground.

It was so scarey, anyone you speak to has never been through anything like it. We had 10mins warning that it was bad and it was coming with hail! Lucky enough Wade came home early which is unheard off and I am so glad, Lachlan and I were terrified. He just got the cars parked under the house to protect them from the hail. Apparently the winds were 180+ km's an hour and the hail was about the size of a golf ball (and there was so much of it, it looked like snow everywhere). Our house was shaking with all the wind and hail. The storm only went for 15-20mins, but OMG did it do some damage.

We have had 38+ degree temperatures out here in the last few days so no wonder! We had 2 x smashed windows in our house, our gum trees in the back yard are half the size (and they were huge), our clothes line bent in half, lachlans cubbyhouse flew down the road and all the leaves off our tree out the front are gone (just left this big tall stick in the ground of a tree). Our fridge and freezer stuff is all stuffed from the power being off now with this hot hot day again! Our laptop go water logged and it stuffed! There is so much mess in our yard and house.

The steam coming off the ground with the ice hitting the ground was amazing and we had a river of water running down our street. It was so eary (sp?) when it had finished, I have heaps of photo's if anyone is interested.

They called it a natural disaster and a freak of nature storm. It actually hit Emerald first and intisified and hit us the worst.

We had our a/c in getting fixed and it is a box unit and hence had a hole in the wall and we had wind and rain coming in, so hence I have mud/grass/leaves and water all through my house.

Anyway they were working all through the night knocking on peoples doors to ensure everyone was ok and luckily enuf there were no fatalities - thank god. I think we were very lucky to get through the storm as well as we did. Just alot of clean up now, in which they worked till the wee hours in the morning and all day today and have only touched the surface. Might take a few weeks to get this town back to its original condition.

They expected another storm again tonight, and thank god it never came!

Our shop was under water and has about 50-60 thousand dollars worth of damage. I was in the shop all day mopping and cleaning up and have still so much to do. I am so tired!!!!!!!! We have insurance, but there is so much work involved it is not funny! Work we had not anticipated on.

What a day, and to top it all off I got a call from my papsmear the other week and my low grade abnormality (that I have had for 1 1/2 years now - since Lachlan was born) has now turned into a high grade abnormality.

With being anxious about this pregnancy as well I have been crying all afternoon, and just wonder what else is going to go wrong........

Haven't got my hcg levels back yet, being no power the dr's surgery couldn't download the results.