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We had a fairly ferocious storm come through yesterday afternoon around 3:30pm. No damage to property (our property that is) but we had 5 trees come down in our backyard, causing quite the mess.

Our town has power, but our street doesn't due to a tree falling over the powerline that comes into our street, severing it. The local SES (State Emergency Service) won't remove the fallen tree as there are powerlines underneath it. The power company who deals with the infrastructure says it could be a week or two before they get to it.

To be fair, the power company says they have 340 crews working around fixing things, yet they have over 400 incidents where power is out. The towns further down the line (the nearest has a population of 3500+) are without power. Within our surrounding area (a 100km radius) there are 5 towns without power. They've been told it could be a week before it's back on.

To make things worse, the mobile phone system is down too, has been since about 10pm last night. It has come back sporadically throughout the day, usually for about a minute or two before going down again. It can be off for a few hours in between too.

I was lucky enough to get a 3.3kva generator delivered today. It was the last one the wholesaler I deal with had (apparently they sold out within 15 minutes this morning). I was after the 6.8kva one but beggars can't be choosers. At least we can keep our refrigerator and freezers going. Our internet, though, is taking a back seat in the power hierarchy.

So, typing this I lost mobile phone connection for about half an hour. It's back now, but who knows for how long.