#I'm doing all this in preparation for the cyclone's winds and it couldn't even provide me some cloud cover? rude

[taradactyls]

*CYCLONE UPDATE*

With Cyclone Alfred just being announced to be 100% hitting Brisbane late Thursday or early Friday and flooding and power outages predicted I think I should probably say now that I may disappear for up to a week.

Our home is on a hill so the combination of storm surge (7m waves apparently), king tide, 700mm of rain and the dam releases to cope with that (lol it really is everything at once) won't be a danger to us. We'll probably be cut off but otherwise fine. This isn't our first flood.

We're being told to expect "destructive winds, in excess of 95kph and gusts over 130kph for places close to the cyclones eye" and we're not sure how big the eye is or what counts as close to it but we're making plans to keep the toddlers with us at night and maybe even all camp out in the living room - which is more protected than upstairs.

We've got plenty of food and torches, and so the power outage should be more annoying than anything else.

I'll try pop on and post a little 'we're safe' update after the worst is past.

But, uh, yeah, I'll probably disappear from online within 48 hours from now and there definitely won't be any new chapter this week or the next.