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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 22874" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>I can't claim snow and ice (although easy child can - Canberra got over three feet of hail two nights ago) but we're now getting daily thunderstorms, every afternoon between about 3 and 4 pm. Some of these are huge and I just posted a link to a news story from yesterday about where husband & I used to live (and easy child, until a year ago). Quite a number of cars got washed over an 8 foot fence, one car had little kids in it. One of the rescuers nearly got swept away himself, after he got the baby out of the car. And he was wearing a life jacket, from what the TV footage seemed to show.</p><p></p><p>Added to this, there's a tropical cyclone (aka hurricane) forming off the Queensland coast, they're saying it could be really nasty. And although it's a long way from us, it still affects us here with high seas. Last time we had breakers forming way back at the entrance to our port (not Sydney Harbour, although that was rough as well). All Sydney beaches were closed. We had to go further upriver to find a beach quiet enough to swim on, and the water was very murky. Our boat was stopped because waves were crashing over the wharf. The schoolkids had to be bussed in and out. Mind you, a lot chose to stay home and surf near the wharf.</p><p></p><p>I'm hoping the cyclone doesn't make landfall. The price of bananas has only just dropped to the point where we can afford to buy them again, after Cyclone Larry wiped out 80% of the Aussie crop a year ago. In Coffs Harbour, where the remaining 20% grow, they no longer rob banks. They rob banana plantations. Basically, some blasted ratbag goes in at night and rips off some other hard-working plantation grower, and flogs the fruit for a fortune. One ute load of bananas was worth thousands of dollars.</p><p></p><p>Between the daily storms and the impending cyclone, we're likely to be cut off from our main access road quite often in the next few months. They put in a new bridge high upstream for us, but we still get a lot of folks taking the time off sick rather than drive for several hours more each day. The ground is now waterlogged after our recent rains, so if we just spit upstream the river will go over.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 22874, member: 1991"] I can't claim snow and ice (although easy child can - Canberra got over three feet of hail two nights ago) but we're now getting daily thunderstorms, every afternoon between about 3 and 4 pm. Some of these are huge and I just posted a link to a news story from yesterday about where husband & I used to live (and easy child, until a year ago). Quite a number of cars got washed over an 8 foot fence, one car had little kids in it. One of the rescuers nearly got swept away himself, after he got the baby out of the car. And he was wearing a life jacket, from what the TV footage seemed to show. Added to this, there's a tropical cyclone (aka hurricane) forming off the Queensland coast, they're saying it could be really nasty. And although it's a long way from us, it still affects us here with high seas. Last time we had breakers forming way back at the entrance to our port (not Sydney Harbour, although that was rough as well). All Sydney beaches were closed. We had to go further upriver to find a beach quiet enough to swim on, and the water was very murky. Our boat was stopped because waves were crashing over the wharf. The schoolkids had to be bussed in and out. Mind you, a lot chose to stay home and surf near the wharf. I'm hoping the cyclone doesn't make landfall. The price of bananas has only just dropped to the point where we can afford to buy them again, after Cyclone Larry wiped out 80% of the Aussie crop a year ago. In Coffs Harbour, where the remaining 20% grow, they no longer rob banks. They rob banana plantations. Basically, some blasted ratbag goes in at night and rips off some other hard-working plantation grower, and flogs the fruit for a fortune. One ute load of bananas was worth thousands of dollars. Between the daily storms and the impending cyclone, we're likely to be cut off from our main access road quite often in the next few months. They put in a new bridge high upstream for us, but we still get a lot of folks taking the time off sick rather than drive for several hours more each day. The ground is now waterlogged after our recent rains, so if we just spit upstream the river will go over. Marg [/QUOTE]
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