Reporting from the thick of it!

This, Day 9, post event, is the first Day that i can get on the internet - but it's 3G - unstable - there's no info as to when it will return.

There's been a lot of damage in the region. 20 lives lost, 20-30 000 homes flooded - thousands of homes destroyed. Records smashed.

My house got through, by a whisker, i was lucky, a lot of damage to the farm's fences.

There's community spirit but part of that spirit includes a simmering anger towards authorities and a sense the region was "abandoned" - that it was left to a DIY rescue service - with no communication.

There are issues about how the experts prepared, then responded, as well as the performance of the biggest Communication carrier (Telstra) in a crisis.

The media, of course, has behaved in its usual way.

Looking forward to providing details on the nature of the storm, and exploring the above issues - if we ever get the internet back on.