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In this land wedge I inhabit , Doug, 6.5 acres or so, I await a touch of the dribbles which may happen this arvo if we can believe the prognosticators. In preparation, I have cleared out leaves and twigs from about 200 meters of driveway gutter in hopes that if any downpour comes, it will not whisk away the dusty driveway completely. Our hearts do go out to Queenslanders and northern New South Welshmen and women. Fire is bad but it gets its business done and stops. Floods you see coming, then they stay with you and gobble up before they go. Hoo roo, Bill On 31/01/2013, at 4:30 AM, Douglas Barbour wrote: > Hmmnn: the TV news ere suggested the weather (rain/storm) was moving south & would reach Melbourne, but maybe not. Certainly, where it's hit it's almost as bad as a couple of years ago… > > That's what it means to live on a continent, rather than in a small country: such different weather across the states… > > Doug > > On 2013-01-29, at 3:09 PM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> meanwhile in other parts of Australia, dire floods… >> (and aren't we lucky to have water in our pipes? >> ie no severe restrictions as in big droughts >> >> On 30/01/2013, at 7:29 AM, Bill Wootton wrote: >> >>> Enough already of this bloody drought >>> undeclared yet but have no doubts; >>> the dry is in, the rain is out. >>> >>> On former grass, only cracks. >>> Nightly hosing can't turn the attack. >>> Everything once lush, now moisture lacks. >>> >>> Stone fruit shrivels : poor plums and nectarines >>> O Great Tap Turner, must you be so mean? >>> Perpetual dry is plain obscene. >>> >>> What will it take to hear gutters awash? >>> to wear again, a mackintosh? >>> Vale S P L O S H. >> > > Douglas Barbour > [log in to unmask] > > Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuation 2 (UofAPress). > Recording Dates (Rubicon Press). > > Something else is out there > godamnit > > And I want to hear it > > C.D.Wright >