That Old Camino Feeling

Hi from a wet, windy and recovering South Australia. You may have caught news of the 1 in 50 year storm that raged through our state on Wednesday and Thursday. The entire state lost its electricity supply in the afternoon affecting school pickups and commuters, backup generators failed at a major hospital among so many, many other events.

This is the week that we house sat a friends horse property in the Adelaide Hills. Ha! Ha! Floods and gale force winds, no electricity for almost 24 hours...

Today the thundering waters heading towards the sea are causing further flooding and the army is sand bagging to help the weary emergency services.

And well might you ask what has this to do with the Camino?

Everything. The good, the bad and the extraordinary.

It's how the community came together... it's how the everyday issues just fell away to what was really important... strangers turning up to help and becoming firm friends in the process... it was shared hardship, shared meals, picking each other up as the storm raged on and on, a sense of shared purpose and direction...

...it was that old Camino feeling...

Thanks, Priscilla.

This is the front page of our local paper today paying tribute to the community spirit, dedication and sheer hard work that has been evident this past week.

Unfortunately the flooding has continued and another 3 days of heavy rain is forecast beginning tomorrow so that we will all stay the task and continue to say our prayers.