Thanks, Sandra. Tandberg's a special kind of bloke.
The icy pole (popcicle) reference is to the railway staff, at Melbourne's main train-station, giving out free ice treats to the thousands of people waiting for trains that never came. That was only at first. Now there are no announcements, no treats. Melbournians did get free travel everywhere yesterday but there were still long, long waits in the burning sun.
Here we had a power failure for 6 or so hours. The system just ran out. Evening at least, so easier to cope. Our water is pumped to the house so when we have no power we have no running water either. Still and all it's good to be away from the city. It's slowly getting a little bit cooler.
Rain rain -- it's the other day now. Come again before our tanks run dry.
Cheers, Joy