It was a hairy night in the Valley for many.
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The violence of last night's storms brought down trees and phone lines in multiple locations west of the highway.
People driving to work this morning had mostly static to keep them company, with local radio towers affected.
There are even reports on social media that the force of the wind managed to relocate someone's garden shed near the Macksville Cemetery.
And on Wallace St, the strong gusts have succeeded in lifting the roof of the two-story infant section of the old St Pat's School, flip it, and transport it neatly in one piece over the top of the playground adjacent.
It was a surprise for Greg Wood when he woke up this morning.
"I live next door and didn't hear a thing other than the wind howling," he said.
Thankfully the front section of the school which is where the parish offices are now located was untouched.
Local builder Joe Costa was there this morning securing the building, which has withstood over 40 years of storms; Joe said he remembers attending the kindergarten there when in opened in 1979.
"At a guess I think it may be that the prolonged drought and low humidity has caused the wood to shrink back, and allowed the nails to come loose," he said.
John Harris is on the parish finance committee and was called in this morning to assess the damage and sort out the clean-up.
"It's actually landed in the best place possible, really. If the wind had have taken it any further it may have damaged some of the nearby houses," he said.
"You know, it's funny - I live in Nambucca and we didn't get a drop last night."
Joe said he received 45mm in half an hour in Upper Warrell Creek.
"The first one came over and wet my back deck, then I think it came back half an hour later and wet my boots at the front door," he said.
"But the third one was the loudest - that was just before midnight."
Residents in Talarm have recorded 60mm, those in Taylors Arm are saying they received 40mm. Macksville received between 20 and 30 mm, Eungai Creek got over 30mm and Congarinni North got 15mm. But the upper reaches of the arms seemed to have got the tail end, with locals saying there were only a couple of spots seen at Missabotti and Upper Taylors Arm.
East of the M1, there was bupkis, with washing on the line at Scotts Head, Valla Beach and Nambucca Heads still as a dry as a dead dingo's proverbial this morning.