[Margaret Pilkington]

I have spent a fair bit of time in Queensland....shopped in the Stockland Mall(the one that was used for Cairns residents as an evacuation shelter),spent time at Innisfail and Mission beach.....and was thinking of all these memories as I watched the progress of the storm on the Australian news channels, and their newspapers.
I feel for the people in these places. Their lives disrupted by one climatic disaster after another........but I hope they can stay strong, and rebuild their broken lives.