November Update - BOOM!
On November 12, around 4 pm in the afternoon, the Good Lord sent us this little parcel across Gulf St Vincent.
Whilst soldering wires onto one of my 930’s I heard our Gum Tree starting to shed its boughs in the high wind. I decided to move to the door frame in the front of the building in case the big gum to the west of the CBW decided to drop onto the CBW. Just as I got to the doorway, the back end of the room, where I was soldering, exploded. Two large gum trees gave up in the wind and crushed that end of the building. I hightailed it out to the safety of the house.
After the storm I surveyed the damage, thought about the Good Lord’s message to me and decided he was right. Not big enough and much more rolling stock required.
The photos below show some the damage.
The following day, friends and family helped us clean up. Ray and Ron drove all the way from the far North to help move my railway ‘stuff’ to a safer environment.
I am in the process of dealing with our Insurance Company on repairs/replacement. It will be probably six months before I have a building to work with again .
With the loss of the CBW, I am looking to the opportunity it provides. I have started work on kits I have had for years, and ones bought recently. Helen has given me space in the house to set up my ‘hobby desk’. I have also started designing the new new CBW.
With tragedy, comes opportunity. I can redesign the layout without duck-unders, simplified wiring, design it more prototypically with the VR coming in from the opposite end of Blue Lake from the SAR.
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