Online briefly at internet cafe again, will have to dash soon. We have a temporary line on the homephone. Insurance estimate is 1, poss 2 weeks? till power and water are able to be restored basically because they send out a dozen different people who all seem to be assessors and all do nothing more than look at the damage, squint, grunt, and go "hmmm..." As far as I can tell essentially the hold up is that they've got 9 tons of redtape to go through, the left hand doesn't know what the right is doing and in my more cynical and over it moments I suspect that both hands are busy wanking.