Yeah… that’s the inspiration right there 
Just been working through incomplete video games. Finished a game called Half-Life: Alyx and now playing through Half-Life 2: VR Mod.
cleaning up around the backyard, heaps of palm branches down, sticks, branches and leaves everywhere. massive pile at the side of the house to take to the dump when I have more time
shifted back onto nights for bridge and culvert servicing to help ease floodwaters so the coast can drain effectively and let the water flow away
I hate shifting from days to nights, really messes with the body clock 
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Aint that the truth, used to do it myself.
Best of luck with everything.
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thanks mate, much appreciated
Give me short haul, over international flying, any day….
Back of the clock red eyes are horrible, for someone who is naturally a early riser…
Also, 2-3 day trips, as opposed to being away 10 days+…
Would it be better to be in an apartment during a cyclone?
I’d rather be in a house.
More curious cos you don’t really need to worry about flooding if you’re higher up but I think the high speed winds would really be a pain.
Also your ability to leave the building would be meh too.
Hong Kong gets hit regularly by typhoons with just about zero property damage to apartments. Philippines gets hit and the houses get flattened. In a typhoon you can sit in the lounge room and watch the window glass to the balcony oscillating in the seals
Philippine houses are built out of bamboo though 
haven’t been in HK for a while… don’t really have a need to go back.
Just watching all the fires start from lightning in the last hour. Up to 6 fires now.
I wondered what the orange glows were on the horizon at this time of night. Only a small storm but packed full of lighting 100’s of strikes.
Trouble being, had bugger all rain for a year and won’t take much for them to get going, which they are.
One part drowns, the other part burns. 
working through my game back catalogue. managed to finish Half-Life 2: VR Mod tonight.
Unbelievable 
Hope they don’t get out of hand. 
We didn’t start the fire
It was always burning, since the world’s been turning.
All good at the moment in a conservation park, 6400Ha fire size at the moment.
Recon stage=Stand back and watch it burn as not much they can do.
I’m not threatened… yet(famous last words ) as it is a fair way off but close enough to be aware. Annd Lock n’ Load 
Glad I resupplied yesterday.
Hoping it just burns out but with conditions and fuel amount once it breaks the park, which it did 6 times within my early am, they can do something about it and there is bugger all to burn in farmers paddocks.
They requested extra assistance from Adelaide for 6am start this morning as more than local CFS can handle with the jack shit we have. They are there.
Also they are busy fighting lightning strike fires down south east way more there around Naracourte to Mt Gambier to Robe.
I was watching it on the Lightning strike map south east got hammered. More than further North.
Here’s my crappy late night phone shot over 140k away. Only a little bonfire
As I’ve always said to overseas people…
"Australia, if it’s not on fire it’s because it’s underwater."
The beauty of being in Southwest WA, extremely rare to see cyclones and flooding here is virtually impossible!
Don’t go up North though, cyclones are QLD type common and the flooding is MUCH worse, simply due to the massive amounts of land that it covers.
Mate I seen yesterday is the big boss with a Road Construction Contract Company that provides its services building Haul Roads, Trucking Routes and Access Roads for the major big mining companies up north.
He was sent home early during the last cyclone a couple of weeks ago, and then had to return early and doing double shifts organising millions of dollars worth of repairs and rebuilding the damage caused from the massive flooding in the region.
One mine had a massive Causeway 1.3km long and 4 metres high, 40 metres wide completely swept away, with the mining company unable to shift dirt and is currently costing them 1.16 million dollars a day in lost production.
He had a meeting with the mining bosses as soon as the All Clear from the cyclone was given and was flat out organising all the logistics he needed for his company to start immediate rebuilding of the causeway.
The mining bosses wouldn’t wait for the several large triple trailer side tippers my mate organised to arrive on site the next day, so they sent massive Haul Trucks out along a Bitumen access road to start dumping dirt out at the causeway… which has now caused over 2.5 million dollars worth of damage to the bitumen access road, which will now also need to be completely rebuilt, along with EVERY single culvert under that road that’s just had a few thousand tonnes of massive Haul Trucks collapsing everything!
Not to mention another 40klm long bitumen LV Access Road that the mining company tried diverting their trucks around to try and keep some dirt moving, which is now also completely wrecked and the whole lot requiring rebuilding as well at god knows how many millions of dollars at this stage as they are still running trucks over it! 
My mate will be doing double shifts for the rest of the year at this rate! 
Tell me about it, some people live in their own bubble sometimes. Which is fine. Just don’t complain about not having things and roads until you actually tried to fix them yourself.
Council Carted tonnes of gravel up my road to fix a certain section, yea the dirt road was turned to shit in no time, trucks were fkd from shaking to shit, kept the local tyre replacement place working daily from all the blow outs on dump trucks. They smashed hell out of it, the road is simply not designed to have that weight on it, because some office snot said here do it and you wonder why you have cost blowouts.
One farmer who are good people but bit upper class even filed with council for new tyres on their ute, I thought that’s a bit rude, your paddocks rougher. oh well they got reimbursed too. Was nothing wrong with my tyres when I had to plough through it to get places I had to be, shift to 4wd and slow down. No problem.
Then they had to fix the section that the trucks could get access in on top of that.
Now I’m looking at my driveway turned to shit as it’s had frieghtliners and Kenworths chewing shit out of it carting the ex nieghbours sheep out as mine are the only loading yards functional in the area and I get… thanks. But it’s legally ordered by his ex.
I said ok get your shit done and fk off. Still more to be done yet. 8 quad decks of sheep trailers thus far.
Kenworth T909’s are not a small rig, bigger than American ones.
I’m keeping my cool.
Oh yeah, I definitely know the size of Nine-oh’s from all my truck driver mates.
The one I’m house sitting for at the moment had one for his wedding car!
I’ve got the pics on my old phone, otherwise I’d be posting a few here of the bride trying to climb in and out in her long cumbersome wedding dress!