Climate Disasters ---- Cyclones

So terrifying , I would have to sell up and move.

you are very brave @Shaz51

thank you @Former-Member

we have not totally lost our house yet --- lots of damage yes

repairable - yes

finding it hard to live inbetween -- yes

@Former-Member, have you being through a bushfire or a cyclone xxx

Hi Shaz

I haven't been through a cyclone. It sounds very scary and so much cleanup and costly of energy and finances in the aftermath, and emotions of loss. Nature is so powerful.

We had fires here last year, not for about 10 kms around me fortunately, lots of smoke, had to shut all the doors and windows to brethe, but where my oldest son was conceived up in the forset was all burnt bad. Broke my heart. So scary too cos there's trees no matter which way we try to leave.

I agree, the sense of community was so strong. So nice to have a little rain too from time to time and hear the creek burble. It used to rain so much round here we'd have the frog opera going all night.

Lately we've had a real cold wind blowing off the east coast, like the polar ice cap is melting and the air is running up the east coast with the currents, and then the forest catches it, so dawn and all morning have been bone chilling cold. This morning was warmer though.

Sorry to rave on.

I hope the season is gentle.

Thankfully no. Friends of ours had a bushfire through their property.

Their house was nearly completed but only the trees were affected and some wildlife

it was the ongoing checking of trees and clearing to see which had to come down.

i have a vivid imagination and really feel for everyone affected.

that would of still been scary @grayhorn

Glad you shared your story @grayhorn , sharing is caring , glad you are ok

we are in cyclone season now @grayhorn , @Former-Member

so it is a waiting game now to see if we have a cyclone form and if it comes , so fingers crossed that we don't get one this year

thank you for sharing with us your experience with distaster- so many times!

I bet each time you built back stronger, physically and metaphorically.

I bet each time you built back stronger, physically and metaphorically. true @Burnt but you never get used to the thought of a cyclone coming , the waiting game or the Power of the winds and the amount of rain that comes with each cyclones

\Hello @MDT , @Former-Member , @grayhorn , @Former-Member

Hello @Shaz51 you really have nerves of steel. I seriously couldn't live knowing each year that cyclones, floods and fire can arrive and destroy everything you worked hard for and the risk to all life's too.

Take care everyone 💓

Hey Shaz51 thanks for sharing your encounters with cyclones! What a testament to the strength of the human spirit and resilience

I think that as humans we tend to think we are in charge of the planet but it only takes a natural event to throw things into chaos and we realise that we are subject to nature. Fires, cyclones, viruses - maybe we need to return to nature a bit more and try to live in sync with it. I can't imagine what it is like to be in the midst of a cyclone. Your description of being in the eye of the storm and the feeling of the air on the day, kind of reminds me of driving the highway and seeing the total devastation of the fires - smoudering trees, no green, no birds, no animals - it is an eerie feeling. But, when you start to see the regrowth and the animals return - its a comforting feeling that things can get better given some time.