Top marks to Energex.

Our power went off at 6.00PM. In the middle of the biggest flood around here in the last 40 years, they had it restored by midnight.

This is pretty important in country areas. With the power off most lose all their food, & many dependant on water pumps to get their water out of underground tanks, are in big trouble.

So well done Energex. I don't like the prices of power since these windmills appeared, & I know how you did it during a 200mm downpour, but thanks heaps.

Power outages and windmills. Did the windmills cause the power to go off just like SA.

You can,t trust them things they have a mind of their own.

No it's those god damn gum trees.

We have to chop all the old breaking ones down, & have just a few shrubs, to live decently.

We get rid of windmills when ever we see them, shoot them down with our bazookas, unless they are the small water pumping type. Bet the damn greens will try to take our bazookas off us next.

Yes, and meanwhie Airlie Beach still has no power (as of Sunday night).

Speaking to my brother KC, he said this is without doubt the worst ever to hit the region in the 30 years he has been there and the real damage came from the storm the next night. They received some 1.6 metres of rain overnight and at its peak they got 6" per hour for six hours. The place is a disaster zone.

The two pontoons at the reef are out of action. One should be fixed in 3 months, the other may be a write off.

Hayman, Daydream and Hamo are all a mess, with DD perhaps taking 9 months to rebuild, if at all.

He said they had 100 MPH winds for almost 24 hrs, first from the south, then from the NW which did most of the damage. Both marinas are being classed as 'boat soup' with one 40 foor cat having been flipped over and impailed on one of the pilons.

The expected damage bill may be in the billons and many businesses will never reopen. In fact some businesses and houses have had up to 2 feet of mud and sludge run through them, mostly houses on the hill sides.

Daydream copped it pretty hard in Ada.

The long snake that was the original resort had everything of the top floor gone, except the toilet pedestals. They were still standing proud in isolated glory. Pity I lost my photo of it, I wonder if any are still around.

Today such photos would be all over the net, & fixed into history.