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Date Posted: 17:07:45 10/04/03 Sat
Author: Kylie
Author Host/IP: NoHost / 144.139.9.206
Subject: Our Holiday

Our holiday in review -

We were visiting family at Dubbo. While there they had a very big windstorm. We had been visiting dh's family on one side of town and I decided because I'd been driving all day (to get to Dubbo) that I would make an early night of it and head back to my parents. As we hopped into the car the lightning started. It was very fierce, so J, X and I started praying. We didn't hear thunder the whole time we were driving and although I could see the wind in the trees it was like we were driving in the eye of the storm. There were times where for several seconds (it felt like ten or more) it was like broad daylight, and the lightning was on all sides. We got to my parents, got in the door, shut it behind us and then the rain started. We looked outside and it was just bucketing down. Then it started coming in under all three doorways and the lights went out (they came back on at about 4.30am). The next morning we went to drive into town and the main road was blocked with fallen limbs. We took a detour and it was blocked, took another detour and it was also blocked, finally coming back out to the main road to find that in the meantime they had gotten it clear. More than one house in the town near Mum and Dad's lost their roofs, many full-grown gum trees came down, but thankfully no lives lost (except sadly one of the giraffes at the Western Plain Zoo which had to stay closed for two days while they cleaned up the mess).

The rest of the holiday was pleasantly unexciting in comparison.

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[> Re: Our Holiday -- Tina Swinimer, 04:28:36 10/05/03 Sun (hlfx50-1-10.mtt.net/142.177.41.19)

Kylie so sorry about the storm spoiling things a bit-hope the rest of the vacation was lots of fun.I remember way back when Laura and SArah were little and I had them to a party on Oak Island where captain Kidds treasure is supposed to be buried-it was the 4th of July and some visiting Americans were going to celebrate their big hiliday here in Canada by putting on a great fireworks display-well as bad luck would have it, it started pouring so I had to take the girls back up to the lake where they were staying with me-they cried and I said stop crying You will soon see fireworks-thunder and fierce lightening soon came-every few years one of the girls will remind me of the great fireworks display "I" put on for them.


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[> Re: Our Holiday -- Susan, 05:22:46 10/06/03 Mon (CPE-144-137-196-182.sa.bigpond.net.au/144.137.196.182)

Gee Kylie, the storm sounds awful. Mother Nature is sure throwing a lot at us at the moment, hey?
Glad you had a good holiday though.
What a shame about the giraffe - was it from the storm?


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[> [> Re: Our Holiday -- Kylie, 08:06:43 10/06/03 Mon (NoHost/144.139.9.63)

Susan, the giraffe was killed by the storm, not sure of the circumstances (whether by a falling limb or it was freaked out by the storm and ran into something).

There has been some scary weather lately. Even here at home we've had some interesting winds.

Kylie

PS glad you enjoyed the movie. It's a real thinking one isn't it?


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