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I know I often show you pretty colourful flowers, but there is another side to life in the tropics. Cyclones!  Technically cyclone season ends at the end of April, but lately we have become a bit complacent.  Cyclones have been forming anad wandering around the coral sea and then dispersing. Last weekend it seemed as though Ita was going to be different.  She became a category 5 and there was talk that this was going to be the biggest cyclone or storm of the year.  We readied ourselves and buckled down.  I took this photo outside our front door just as the winds started. Luckily it downgraded quickly and most of the damage was caused by flooding.  The most important thing to do at times like this is be prepared, sit tight, and wait for the all clear. We just got our phones back, but electricity is still out.  It will be a while until I am posting pretty flower photos again, but that is life in the tropics. 

Cyclone Yasi has gone, and at the last minute it veered further south than us, and continued inland for days wreaking havoc along its path.  Luckily there was no loss of life, but poor Queensland has really suffered this wet season.  The bible study I attend started up last night and we discussed Genesis where Jacob reveals Pharoah's dream.  Seven years of abundance will be followed by seven years of famine.  Jacob is put into a position of power to monitor the collection of one fifth of the crops to put aside for the bad times to come.  Maybe our government needs to read that, and start putting money aside.  We have already entered the lean times, but better late than never.   This will happen again, this is the tropics, and it is cyclone season after all.  We have just got very compacent during those years of abundance.  Now they seem surprised, and unprepared.  OK I know this is a gardening blog, - getting down o...