Comments on: Back To Business As Usual

By: Monika

Monika — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 02:13:52 +0000

@ Vered: Yes it certainly helps to be prepared just in case. It gave us peace of mind in some ways knowing we could bolt at short notice.

By: Monika

Monika — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 02:13:08 +0000

@ Kathy: Sounds like you live in one of the top spots in the US. Do you live in the actual Keys?

By: Monika

Monika — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 02:12:13 +0000

@ Scott: Thanks for the thoughtful comment. Yes, Florida is very similar to Queensland actually, same type of weather and humidity too. That is why I loved Florida and Mojito’s are my favorite drinks by far.

By: Monika

Monika — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 02:11:02 +0000

@ Trent: No worries nothing bad “happened”. It went by out at sea and yes we were very lucky it did. The story could have had a bad ending otherwise. Hope you are well.

By: Monika

Monika — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 02:10:12 +0000

@ Kelly: Dear that sounds bad what you went through. We never had that much of an issue since the cyclone went by and the only thing we experienced is fright in anticipation and some hefty wind. Oh yeah and some rain. Thanks for caring though. We are fine.

By: Kelly@SHE-POWER

Kelly@SHE-POWER — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:29:22 +0000

Glad you’re all okay up there. Cyclones are scary stuff. Having lived in Mackay, North Qld, I’ve been in one myself. had a massive palm tree uproot and collapse on the roof of my bedroom. One of the scariest moments in my life.

It’s good to have clarity on what’s really important in life, but that said, I hope your property hasn’t sustained any damage.

Take care, and may the sun shine soon.

Kelly@SHE-POWER

By: Trent Brownrigg

Trent Brownrigg — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 03:14:09 +0000

Wow! I’m glad you made it out of that one without incident.

By: scott

scott — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:52:11 +0000

So glad that you survived the ordeal in tact. Interesting comments because I grew up in Florida were we endured hurricanes that accomplish the same devastation in our hemisphere.

Glad your ok!

By: Brett Legree

Brett Legree — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:28:33 +0000

Holy cow! I saw that on the news and wondered about you guys… glad to hear everything is okay.

We do that in winter, for different reasons – though we wouldn’t have catastrophic weather systems like that, the potential always exists for service outages when it is really cold (back in 2003, we lost electricity, water, and natural gas all at the same time, for two days – we almost “abandoned ship” as we could see our breath in the house…)

I still keep as much as I can in a “grab bag” or within easy reach of the grab bag, most times – in case of a fire or something.

Anyway – I’m raising a pint to the both of you (and the birdies!)

By: Vered - MomGrind

Vered - MomGrind — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:28:13 +0000

I’m so glad you’re OK.

Emergency preparedness is always important.