Update

Now late June. Visiting local friends is still very emotional. The devastation lingers like a bad smell. I drove to the end of a nearby closed road in the weekend.I hadn't had time to go that way since the flood. Hard to believe that milled trees that had been in the yard of a local firewood supplier, had been uplifted and travelled 500 metres. Extraordinary as the trees were likely Macroarpa nd had a girth of 1metre.They were massive trees that were lifted and shifted. One was lying against an apple tree across the road from where it was in a yard. Seeing more houses that have been gutted and sit cold and desolate waiting for atention , is hard to absorb. People are gutted as well. Once this thriving area was green and full of activity.Now the road is closed and all one can hear is the beep beep from diggers and the grunt of trucks passing loaded with silt. My friends are suffering and all the authorities can do is tell us the elevation of land and that those at the lower level received more damge. Wow.Need a few degrees to come up with that. At least they are working on the local store.Essential petrol will be back and the hub of our area restored.