Monday, January 1, 2024

Happy New Year Everybody

I wish you all a most happy New Year in 2024, may your lives be blessed and full of good memories to come!

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3 comments:

  1. Rebecca PhillipsJanuary 3, 2024 at 7:22 PM

    Wishing you and Melissa a very Happy New Year, too! And, to quote William Feather, "Let us resolve to do the best we can with what we've got."

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  2. William M. IrwinJanuary 4, 2024 at 9:36 AM

    Yes, I just checked out Feather and found he was a "get up off your butt and just do it" kind of guy with little patience for aimless dreamers. And you're having to contend with the results of that awful cyclone Jasper, aren't you?

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  3. Rebecca PhillipsJanuary 5, 2024 at 1:58 AM

    Jasper came and went on Wednesday, Dec 13th and everybody here was sitting around feeling pretty smug because it wasn't really all that much of a storm. And then the rain started and it kept raining for the next 5 days. I got out of bed around 06:30 on Sunday morning and the creek that's only about 10 yards behind our rented apartment was filling up incredibly fast. By 07:30 it was rising up the outside wall and was about 8" short of coming inside. We've never seen it that high before. The water was coming inside the apartments that are in our complex, but about 150 yards downstream from us. Somebody took some bolt cutters and cut through the chain link fence that runs along that part of the creek because debris that had washed up against it had created a dam. Once the fence was cut down and the water could continue down the creek the water stopped rising, so our unit never did get any water inside. Roads are washed away, landslips have blocked highways and, of course, there's huge beach erosion. And there's a huge issue for people who need a place to stay until their houses can be made livable again because like so many places, there's an enormous shortage of rental availability. Part of the problem is that we are fairly isolated here. The nearest town of any size is a 4 hour drive south of here and it's a place with a population of about 90,000 so there's not a lot of empty housing for rent there either. With a population of less than 26,000,000 in a landmass larger than the contiguous US states we don't have a huge tax base (no FEMA) so help comes mostly in the form of volunteers. I'm very interested to see if we get another weather event like this once the wet season actually kicks in.

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