We’ve had more rain over the last couple of days, but with sunny, clear spots here and there. It’s good in one respect, but the humidity is really high. The night before last there were a couple of heavy downpours and the power went off about 6:30am yesterday morning for a few hours. We thought, rather than sit inside a hot van we’d head off to the supermarket and get a bit of grocery shopping out of the way. I think just about all of Mackay was without power. Traffic lights everywhere were out. I must admit, people were really good at the lights; everyone was being very courteous and careful before going through. It was good to see. It was still drizzling when we went out – here’s a couple of photos taken from the car. The first one is showing traffic lights not working, the one with the low cloud is showing the peak of a hill, the clouds were very low over it, and the other one is the Pioneer River which is up quite a bit.
We went to Mount Pleasant shopping centre which is just north of Mackay, and the power was on there which was good, it also meant the aircon was on 
We got there about quarter to 9, and by the time we left half an hour later the place was really busy, and I think it was more because of the airconditioning than the shops being open.
At least it had stopped raining when we left, and there was blue sky and sun. We took the little truck and opened the soft top a bit – I saw these 2 different types of undercarriages while we were driving –
