Schadenfreude

I”ve just had a call from friends further up the Pacific Highway: the road we used to live in is completely under water and cut off from the Highway… so I’m REALLY GLAD we don’t live there any more (and there’s a small element of me that is mentally pointing out to our former landlord that if he hadn’t been such a pain and made us move it would have been us flooded out there and not him – although at the same time I do feel sorry for him because it must be awful). Meanwhile most of the schools and the centre of town are closed today so our daughter is at home. And those High School kids I mentioned? They all had to stay at the school overnight, including the daughter of our friends up the road.