Made it!

Just in case the suspense was killing you (yeah, right!), I did make it home in one piece. In fact, it has been pretty calm tonight - plenty of wind, but not the incredible sheeting rain like earlier in the day.

Getting home was a bit of an adventure - the trams were no longer runnning, so walking it was, and closer to home a large tree had fallen, blocking the road and forcing me to walk a detour, all the while casting glances back over my shoulder as the blue sky disappeared and the next wave of storm rolled in. But I got home dry, and our house is in one piece.

Plenty of people have damage though - there are a lot of broken tiles lying on the footpath, and I walked past one house where a window had been blown out of its frame and landed on the footpath below.

Nicky finally got away on her flight as well. She finally departed around 9pm, seven hours later than scheduled, but at least on her way.

Shane