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:
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>> 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
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godamnit
And I want to hear it
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