We are really glad to hear everyone is okay and the system was downgraded without causing severe damage. Special thanks to @Crookie for her timely advice and CJ from THS customer support for adjusting two of our sit dates. We were in between sits and we were supposed to fly to Brisbane yesterday but since the airport was closed we were scrambling to find a different sit and look for accomodation. Aussie people are so kind though, it is amazing. Our current HOs extended our current sit for a week and our next HOs moved the dates to accomodate that extension.
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@BunnyCat so happy to hear all that. I hope going forward you get to really enjoy Oz, though I know you have been before. Won’t be long before this is all over and things are back to normal, weather will be great. Enjoy our beautiful country once again 
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@ziggy we are now copping it at Scarborough as Alfred is sitting still over Bribie just north of us. Hope you are still doing ok & get your power back on soon. Apparently there are 330,000 homes with power in SE Qld.
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Oh dear, definitely an unwanted houseguest who just doesn’t know when to leave @Crookie. Hang in there, he has to go sometime, sooner rather than later 
Take care and stay safe 
I got my power back about an hour ago but still driving rain but not unbearable - I’m at Tweed Heads.
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Just checking in after the weekend to see how you’re all doing - I was thinking about our Aussie friends over the weekend.
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Hi @Jenny thanks for asking. It’s been full on here in south east Queensland with winds over 100kph, trees down in many places, a number of houses damaged, all public transport stopped, over 1000 schools were closed as well as most businesses plus three quarter of a million homes lost power (the largest number if any natural disaster in Queensland). They are still trying to reconnect homes.
Unfortunately, as soon as the cyclone came to land it turned into a very slow moving tropical low causing record breaking rainfall in some areas resulting in major flooding. Now there is lots of cleaning up to do.
And that was just in Queensland. The northern rivers area of New South Wales, south of the Queensland border, has been similarly impacted and they are still dealing with terrible floods from this weather event.
However, we are pretty resliant here in Australia, as we face some kind of natural disaster each year. There’s an often quoted part of a famous poem “My Country” by Dorothea Mackellar that really sums up Australia and Australians:
I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror –
The wide brown land for me!
Here is the full poem https://www.dorotheamackellar.com.au/my-country/
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