Freaky weather!
Well, we are up a mountain and it's not unusual to have really strong winds from time to time. But this week has been something else! On Tuesday the winds got stronger and stronger through the day. Just as our monthly camera club meeting got started the power was lost. And that was the end of that. The journey home took me almost two hours instead of 15 minutes due to this:.....

I'm happy to tell you that I wasn't on the train (and as far as I know only one person had a relatively non-serious injury), but between this accident and another tree across the road further back along the highway it was one heck of an evening. When we eventually got moving again there were trees down all along the highway.

We had no power at home for 24 hours - so no phone, no hot water, no heating and NO INTERNET!!!

By the next day the journey back to Katoomba took a measley 45 minutes and I picked up two backpackers along the way who were thumbing a lift back to their hostel. The road is still on a go slow today (Thursday), and whilst I am grateful beyond measure to have my central heating and my internet back, others are still without power  throughout the Upper Mountains. And now we are forecast snow. What a week! 

LB