I was quite happily looking through pet talk yesterday when this almighty storm came over. I was in the process of shutting down the computer when the power went out. The storm was centered right over the Hills district of Sydney where I live. Lots of damage done and 50,000 home were blacked out. Power came on for us about 12 hours later. My poor neighbour had a tree go down in his front yard which ripped out the power lines to his house, so he is still with out power and is on a waiting list to get fixed. Two streets over theyare on another grid and are still without power 24 hours later. The hail that came down was about the size of marbles and made quite a racket with the thunder & lightning. The dogs were okay as they were more interested in the schmakos we gave them, made me jump a bit though.