What is it like to face the full force of nature not once, but several times in your lifetime? In Surviving Nature's Fury - My Journey through Fire, Flood and Cyclone, Karen Feldbauer shares her remarkable story of living through some of Australia's most destructive events: the 1969 bushfires in Victoria, flooding on the Burdekin River in 1973-1974, Cyclone Tracy in Darwin in 1974, and the devastating Queensland floods of 2010-2011. Told with warmth, honesty, and humour, Karen's memoir captures both the terror and the triumph of survival. She recalls a mother's courage as flames licked at their family home, the deafening roar of Cyclone Tracy as she huddled with her sisters in a concrete shower block, and the heartbreak of seeing friends lose everything in the Brisbane floods only to witness the extraordinary resilience of communities who came together as the Mud Army. This is not a story of devastation, but of hope, resilience, and gratitude. A heartfelt reminder that while nature can destroy homes and belongings, it cannot extinguish the human spirit.