A few weeks back now, sorry for the delay
folks, a tropical cyclone warning was issued. This may come as a shock to you
all but at first I was totally unphased.
I thought it would be like the movie Twister and I would be Helen Hunt. This slowly wore off as the day went
on…
1.
The hospital is only cyclone
proof from level 3 down (naturally btw I work on the top floor[7th])
and as such the hospital tried to discharge as many of the non-critical
patients as possible. Best discharge strategy ever.
2.
Because power and water supply
may be down for an unknown number days, every dialysis patient in the top-end
needed an urgent run of treatment. Who
knew when we might be reconnected and all these patients need this life saving
treatment. This made the dialysis units quite a hectic scene all through the
night.
3.
The hospital usually asks for
some volunteers to man the fort. This time they didn’t. I would have to go
home.
4.
The real estate agent gave me a 'being cyclone ready' pamphlet when moving in. I filled my car up with petrol.
I bought enough tinned food to survive y3k. I have to admit I found that quite
enjoyable as you could buy all those soup flavours and meat chili bean
combinations that you need an excuse like a cyclone to purchase. I also brought
all my balcony furniture inside and also had some masking tape to seal all the
windows but couldn’t be fucked in the end.
5.
I realised no-one in D-town may
even know if I was missing or not. I made two emergency phone calls to my
resident who, if didn’t think I was crazy enough already, truly thought I was
out of control. She told me she wouldn’t leave me behind. She is famous now.
Look at this link. http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2012/03/28/296161_ntnews.html She is the one on the bicycle.
That night I slept with red shoes on just
in case I had to click my heels together three times…
I woke up and I heard on radio the threat
was gone. All the cyclone had left me with was a whole lot of canned food whose
labels I have since ripped off. Should make meals next actual cyclone more interesting.
