quick little check-in from my local library - all is mostly okay! the cyclone passed us by with no problems - it was actually a tropical low in the end anyway - but the rain has been relentless and softened the ground into a muddy sludge. all this means is that one of our huge trees that's been slowly listing to one side has finally uprooted and fallen onto our shed, mangled our powerlines, blocked us in the house and blocked our cars in the shed. so. no power, no cell service, no water, no cars for the last few days. i kinda just had to do some parkour through the branches and lines to get out and walked my way to the top of the street to uber to the library to organise some help.

but all things considered, it could have been much worse! nobody's hurt, the house is intact, the cars are intact. now we just need to weather the floods for a litle while and we're good to go. i'm going to try to free my car later on today - it's a 15yo shitbox so a couple of scrapes from branches won't be too devastating - but it's sort of stuck between two poles and will take about 180 3-point turns to ease it out, but i have faith. that thing will live forever out of sheer spite. but yes, anyway, just wanted to check in and update some stuff while i have a few spare moments to myself ✌️