Home Safe

Posted by Carly Lyddiard on Jun 9th, 2007

For those of you trying to contact me, or who have been contacting me, yes, I was in the derailed train near Hawkesbury this afternoon/evening, yes I am in Newcastle and the floods, and yes I am safe and home now (even if the trip from Sydney took 7 or 8 hours instead of 3, hahaha). Aside from being exhausted, drenched and cold, I am also in good health – Nothing a nice hot shower won’t fix :-)

For those of you who don’t know what is going on, tomorrow I’ll write a proper post about my most amazing week. For now, you can have a look at some of this:

Premier Iemma declares Natural Disaster

7 missing after road collapse – news.com.au
Wild Weather Keeps SES Busy – ABC News
9 People missing in Floods – ABC News
Four swept to their deaths – SMH
More than 200 evacuated from Newcastle – news.com.au

Even though I was in some of this I still really have little idea of what is going on, other than its bad and its affecting a lot of people. I am just now in the process of catching up, only having arrived home recently. I’ll try and post tomorrow, providing I have power :-)

Carly

2 Responses

  1. Chris Says:

    Thats great news :) )

  2. Will Says:

    Good to know you’re okay – Lots of stuff happening around here (Toronto/Coal Point) too.
    Took me ~4hrs to get from Newcastle to Toronto on Friday, so I know some of what you had to go through.

    - Will “I need power” Hughes.

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