I heard from a friend in Innisfail today. He adn his family escaped harm as did their house, although many of their immediate neighbours were hit very badly. However, my friend has taught me something useful about disaster preparation. In their freeer, he had largw bottles of water. When the power went off, these "iceblocks" helped keep the frozen foods cold for much longer than otherwise would have been the case. Nifty idea, I thought.

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