We ar about to enter October, the last month of the dry and the month that leads into our Wet Season, from Nonember to the end of the following April. We need to be prepared.

We have been in the top end of the NT since July 1975, arriving in Darwin en route to Numbulwar in July of that year. The impacts of Cyclone Tracy, still very apparent, were mind boggling. What we wittnessed about the cleaqn-up and rebuild was 1000% more graphic than hasd been conveyed to those in southern states six momths earlier.

I confess to annually being on the edge of worry and expectation about how the wet season will impact us all. The potential for adverse weather effects are on my mind. 

I am always relieved when May 1 arrives and my worries about what might happen in the following months come into sharp focus on November 1 every year.  

Readiness is important and ought not be neglected, but complacency can be an undoing attitude. I recommend a trip to Bunnings with the possibility of considering purchasing one of their cyclone packs of emergency necessities.

We must all be prepared for each and every wet season.