Aussie Fury - Luke, Dennis
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This ancient, creaky, timber structure, straddling a creek on a narrow road in a remote area of inland Australia, becomes the proving ground where the lives of three unrelated families come together in a turbulent clash with unexpected consequences.. Their collision takes place not long after a violent storm has devastated the area surrounding the bridge. One of the families is carrying a wild card, something all powerful and unstoppable. It's something that will change everything... FOREVER. On February 3rd, 2011, Cyclone Yasi destroyed towns along the North Queensland Coast and across four…mehr

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This ancient, creaky, timber structure, straddling a creek on a narrow road in a remote area of inland Australia, becomes the proving ground where the lives of three unrelated families come together in a turbulent clash with unexpected consequences.. Their collision takes place not long after a violent storm has devastated the area surrounding the bridge. One of the families is carrying a wild card, something all powerful and unstoppable. It's something that will change everything... FOREVER. On February 3rd, 2011, Cyclone Yasi destroyed towns along the North Queensland Coast and across four states, before petering out over the ocean two days later. That's a fact. And now for the fiction. Steering is a small country town in Northwestern Victoria. McKenzie's Bridge lies a few kilometers out of town. As Cyclone Yasi evolves into a series of tropical storms ravaging the area, three families are travelling along different routes headed for the bridge. Meanwhile, as dense fog shrouds the district in an impenetrable blanket, blurring and distorting the carnage at the bridge, locals are being rescued from the rooftops of their sheds as flood waters surge across the land. Finally there's the good guy cop, called to the scene to wash away the blood and tend to the maimeded. He's new in town, exiled from the city for causing a media storm. Nobody's thought to tell him, but someone's after him, with a score to settle. Farmers are out early the next morning, inspecting the damage, not suspecting for one moment they are about to walk into the center of a different disaster. And this one's not of nature's making. McKenzie's Bridge... Where Nightmares become reality
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My life skills were learned, not taught. We all have our own way of digesting what we see and do in our lives. Driving and working in many other occupations over my lifetime, and doing what I've been doing for so long, has taught me that you learn a lot about yourself, as well as others. Your life skills become your friend, and you pick them up not even realising you have it for later use. I had to learn about the weather so I could be in control of my work commitments, especially over the last twenty years. Some of my friends might tell you I have an obsession with the weather. Unfortunately, within a couple of weeks after getting out of my gardening business, our house was destroyed by fire, at 5am on a windy Sunday morning, gone in just seven minutes. The windy weather played a big part in the quick acting fire destroying our house in seven minutes. But driving around most of the country has also taught me a lot about being resilient, when the weather has been, how you say, horrible. Heavy rain, fog, wind, snow, narrow bridges, farms, city traffic and the list goes on. Not to mention dealing with all kinds of people and animals. Worst of all is the long journey Cyclone Yasi took from Mission Beach in North Queensland, until it left Victoria a few days later. This is how I came up with this fictional story, and it is based on actual events over my trucking life. I hope you enjoyed the ride.