Respect Mother Nature

It's been a rough week for many in New Zealand, especially those living in the lower North Island. The worst floods in recorded history have taken out bridges, washed away roads (completely isolating some towns), swept houses into rivers, flooded buildings right up to their rooflines... Thousands of newborn lambs have drowned, thousands of people are without power or phones, some have lost their entire farms and their houses, it's just awful. Crops are buried under feet of silt, just weeks before they were due to be harvested. We have an agricultural economy, and this will hit it hard.

The big wind we had in Auckland on Sunday night sent a tree through someone's roof, nearly killing them.

I don't know what's happening to the weather. Normally February is clear, very hot, the best month of summer. So far it's been cold, windy and wet. It's more like May, for goodness sake. It's pissing me off. I'm not ready for summer to end, even though the humidity made me VERY uncomfortable in December and January.

rachelcaine, when's David gonna get here? I could so use that Djinn right now :o)

In fanfic news, I am still struggling along with lala247's Bloody Valentines fic. I really want to finish it this weekend. Ghost of a Chance is with our lovely beta readers, so hopefully by the end of next week it will be ready to unleash on an unsuspecting ST board!