well, big news today is a tornado landed just over a kilometre from our house. sadly there has been some injuries and at least one fatality. it was pretty close to our house though.
we live at the green blob and the big damage happened at the red blob.
you can read plenty more on the nzherald website Jane was there this morning, but other than getting a bit soggy as the rain passed they didn’t have any problems. there’s a video here which is nice to hear some kiwi accents. When i got home there was a police car driving round the neighbourhood just checking on people which was nice.
actually, if you want to hear how real kiwis deal with it, listen to this from 1:15. The chap called Adam’s comments are classic kiwi.
Anyway …
i had lunch with buzz today. i was also going to have a coffee this afternoon with abbie, but we cancelled that when we heard that albany had blown away. at that point there were rumours that the tornado was heading for the harbour bridge, or my office so it seemed to make sense not to venture out!
my mum had a good day with jenine and tracey. they went to cornwall park and jenine’s house before the rain kicked in. here are some of her photos:
this is kezia scootering to school yesterday morning i think
this evening we went to home group. it was the first one since shirley’s passing which was a little sad. we did have cake though, despite the subject being ‘fasting’.
it’s really warm and calm outside. we tried to drive back from home group via the mall to see which roads were closed and found they all were so that was a quick trip!
anyway, hopefully tomorrow life will be a little less adventuresome!