Hi! Holger,   
      
   On 25/02/2015 9:40 AM, you wrote to me:   
      
    HG> I hope all is well with you and yours despite the storms and bad weather   
    HG> you've had hitting the west coast of Australia.   
      
   All Ok, thanks Holger.  We just recently had a category 5 cyclone skirt around   
   our countryside.  (At category 3 they're equivalent to a northern hemisphere   
   hurricane.)  Luckily there wasn't any local flooding and no bridge closures   
   this time.  We just suffered through some wind at times (maybe about 60km/h   
   gusts) and about 500ml of rain.   
      
   Prior to that, we experienced our first earthquake of any note in recent   
   times.  A 5.2 magnitude quake that rattled the house at ~0200hrs one Monday   
   morning.  It turns out that the epicenter was within 100kms northwest of   
   here.  My parrots' cages starting a noisy metallic rumbling on their wheels.    
   I thought the house doggie was scratching himself while resting against the   
   cages, so I woke up to find myself hurling flaming oaths at the mongrel.  It   
   wasn't his fault!  :)   
      
   Oh, you said the west coast.  Yes.  They have had it tough there. Mostly heat   
   waves and bush fires.  The fires have been the worst.  (I re-named this   
   Fidonet node's name in the nodelist in honour of one of the areas in the news   
   at that time.)  But, this is Australia.  Bush fires have always been a part of   
   life's cycle here.  And, well, it is the driest continent also.   
      
   How's your hip?  Are you walking alright?   
      
   Cheers,   
   Paul.   
      
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