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DAMS FLANNED
As predicted by sciencemagologist Tim Flannery, this month was supposed to see Sydney’s dams run dry. Instead:
At last the rains have fallen in the right places and Sydney’s dam catchment area has had its best drenching in years ...
Dam levels are predicted to rise by up to 5 per cent, pushing drinking water storage levels to 45 per cent, the highest in three years.
In fact, we’re looking at the wettest June since 1964; excellent news following Australia’s prolonged drought. It could be that, similar to the Goracle himself, the Flannacle possesses magical weather-altering powers. Speaking of the drought, Flannery had this to say a month or so back:
“Even a year ago this would have been unthinkable,” Flannery told AFP. “I think it’s the most extreme and the most dangerous situation arising from climate change facing any country in the world right now.”
And another May comment:
In a keynote address, Flannery provided an update on the acceleration of global warming, from the rapidly melting Greenland ice sheet to the unprecedented drought that has gripped Australia.
But following recent rain, Flannery has lately changed his tune:
“I believe the first thing Australians need to do is stop worrying about ‘the drought’ - which is transient - and start talking about the new climate.”
In May, the drought was “the most extreme and the most dangerous situation arising from climate change facing any country in the world right now”; a few weeks later, and we should stop worrying about a “transient” weather phenomenon. Flannery is in flat-out flip mode. Not that he’s given up making ridiculous predictions:
Environmental researcher Tim Flannery has warned that Brisbane and Adelaide - home to a combined total of three million people - could run out of water by year’s end.
I’ll take that bet. According to these figures, Adelaide has enough water to last until late January, 2008, even if not a further drop arrives before then. Brisbane has sufficient supplies to last until October next year. Flannery, however, will certainly run out of “Australian of the Year” glory points by 2007’s end. Then he can commence building Geothermia.
UPDATE. More from Flannery, back in 2005:
Scientist Tim Flannery predicts that one morning in the not-too-distant future in one of the major cities, taps will be turned on, and instead of water, there will only be a whistling in the pipes.
Not a drop. Totally dry.
A question to the global warming faithful out there: when you talk about “overwhelming scientific evidence” and “respected scientists”, are you including Flannery in that? Because I’m not getting much of a feeling that Flannery consults any charts or tables or records before announcing these predictions of his. It’s more like he comes up with whatever crap he thinks will scare children or sell more books. Is Flannery an embarrassment to you people yet?
UPDATE II. I wonder how the San Pellegreenoid’s “Three Phone Calls” campaign is going.
UPDATE III. This woman should stop complaining and start making $50,000 speeches:
Inspired by climate change campaigners Tim Flannery and Al Gore, Jane Majkut became determined to cover her roof with solar panels and buy a new hybrid car.
Then she found out what they cost.
Yep; green ain’t cheap.
“I believe the first thing Australians need to do is stop worrying about ‘the drought’ - which is transient - and start talking about the new climate.”
It doesn’t matter WHAT you worry about, it just matters just that you WORRY. Therefore, you CARE. Therefore, you are a superior person. Therefore, you get to rule over the rest of us noxious rabble.
Posted by nofixedabode on 2007 06 17 at 02:38 PM • permalinkAustralia should forget about moving people and agriculture to the country’s north because the increased rainfall there won’t last, scientist Tim Flannery says.
He says the Asian “haze” is responsible for wetter conditions, and as Asia cleans up its air, this effect will disappear.
Not sure when Asia will get around to cleaning up its air, and this effect - as you’d expect - comes from his beloved computer models, but Junk Science had this to say:
... Flannery should do a search on Kakadu or maybe Art Linklater, the Humpty Doo Rice Project, Fogg Dam and various other 1960s-era projects—Australia has a wet ‘top end’ and has done so for a long time. This has nothing to do with the Asian Brown Cloud and everything to do with being in the wet tropics. Flannery is a gibbering nitwit and getting worse by the day.
If you’re being paid 50 grand or so to speak to a crowd, I guess there’s an understanding that you can’t just stand there and say everything is going to be okay.
For far too long, wandering the streets with soiled trousers and a sign saying “The end of the world is nigh” has involved no pay and miserable conditions. Full credit to Flannery for professionalising it.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 06 17 at 06:39 PM • permalinkOT Breaking in Melbourne: Three shot in the City.
It’s been all over the Today Show, and they’ve just confirmed one person has died and two are critically injured.
Will post updates as I hear them.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 06 17 at 06:59 PM • permalinkAnd if you worry enough then something big has to be done and if something big has to be done it has to be done by the biggest, most wide-spread bureaucracy possible with the most highly paid bureaucrats and, especially, highly paid consultants like Flim-Flannery.
Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2007 06 17 at 07:00 PM • permalinkI’m very sorry to hear about the shooting, but I thought Australia had very strict gun laws to prevent this stuff.
Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2007 06 17 at 07:01 PM • permalink#1
At the risk of being seen as the harbinger of doom, Brisbane is indeed in danger of flooding.
When Wivenhoe dam was built, it was for flood mitigation. Now it is used as water storage. Once it fills again, it will be kept near full, with no spare capacity to hold flooding rain.
Hopefully this won’t happen before 2012 and the world would have ended by then and floods would have ceased to cause the problems they do now.
If the world does not end at that time, Flummery shall be burned as a witch cause he was wrong or ascend into heaven.
We are not worthy
#7 Dminor Thanks for the link.
On 25 May I said I have come to the considered opinion that the man is stark raving mad, i.e., a complete fuckwit.
On 27 May I said again I have come to the considered opinion that Flummery is stark raving mad
However, Steve Miloy’s comments at JunkScience could be more elegant. Yes indeed, Flannery is a gibbering nitwit and getting worse by the day.
Hmm, but maybe there could be a useful outcome here. The whole phenomenon of Flannery’s behaviour patterns and the gullible journalists and crowds who lap up his words, which could be a type of collective psychosis, could become fertile ground for future PhD research into human behaviour. On the subject of collective behaviour, Jonathan Lowe over at Gust of Hot Air has a good summary about Global Warming Communism.
Another item: yesterday on Fox8, I watched a trailer for Ian Thorpe’s new film, (he claims it’s a really a documentary) “Fish out of Water”. Yes that’s right folks, our one and only Ian Thorpe, Olympic swimmer and Fashion Promoter has found his environmental conscience.
Now isn’t that just fine and dandy, though I suspect Ian could have been learning at the feet of the Great Master Flummery. I lost count after hearing fifteen ‘You Knows” as he spoke. One thing though, there was a segment showing Peter Garret saying Australia doesn’t need nuclear power because “we have ample supplies of gas and coal!” Priceless!
Thorpe’s film called “A Fish Out of Water” is aptly titled.
[PS Please note my attempt at widespread use of the word ‘could’ in this discussion - I’m getting better].
Earth Frenzy Radio described Flannery as Australia’s most eminent scientist. If it is correct, the state of science in Australia is in deep shit. The truth is of course that Flannery’s main claim to fame is not in the world of science but in self-promotion. He has no more claim on the title of “most eminent scientist” than ABC journalist Robyn Williams.
AAP this past week has been describing the lawyers Labor and the Greens hired for a opinion on Howard’s Kirribilli House dinner as “eminent” barristers. The worst offender was Maria Hawthorne, whose bias on the subject astonishing to the point of defying her own journalists code of ethics. She was even reluctant to say that it was Labor who hired “eminent” lawyer Bret Walker.
A quick Google search reveals that Walker and the Greens, silk, Estcourt, have records of left wing and anti-Howard activism. Both lawyers were active in trying to free convicted would-be terrorist David Hicks and Walker headed the legal team that was trying to prove that the Government failed in its duty to protect David Hicks.
Their opinions are politically driven
#10 - re OT breaking news in Melbourne: why did ABC radio, which has immense news resources and is literally a few hundred metres from the shooting scene, fail to cross to live reporting at the scene - particularly given the shooting occurred at 8.20a.m. and peak hour commuters were streaming into the city and required uninterrupted updates?
Instead, Jon Faine resolutely carried on with a scheduled interview with a euthanasia campaigner.
RE: Melbourne Shootings.
One of my mates who works in the area for AON:
“our building is in lock-down…which means i can’t go out for a smoko. which seriously sucks hey.”Posted by fankytomato on 2007 06 17 at 08:20 PM • permalink“I believe the first thing Australians need to do is stop worrying about ‘the drought’ - which is transient - and start talking about the new climate.”
Putting that through the decoder comes up with. “Dont build any more dams, or I will look like a bigger fool than I allready am”
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 06 17 at 08:46 PM • permalink“So I got really excited and did a lot of research. But when I found out how much it would cost to get solar panels and a hybrid car it was quite discouraging.“Instead, Mrs Majkut has resorted to cheaper methods, the favourite being nagging her husband, John.
Nagging? As the entire world knows after being extensively nagged by Al Gore, Tim Flannery, Bob Brown, Ralph Nader, Kevin Rudd, Peter Garrett, and just about anybody else with access to the media, nagging makes a big difference.
Every little bit counts!
Betting on long term weather forecasts is a lot like betting on the behavior of cats. You’re more apt to lose a huge fortune than gain one.
Posted by mythusmage on 2007 06 17 at 09:15 PM • permalinkIt’s interesting to take a step back from the story of Nagging Jane and ask oneself a simple question:
Why is this “article” in the newspaper?
Despite being in the news section, it’s not a news article: it’s just over-the-back-fence gossip. “Jane thinks solar panel are too expensive” is no more a news story than “Madge just bought a new dishwasher” or “Sharon’s become an Enjo lady”.
I look forward to The Age’s next journalistic investigation of national interest, about how that slut in number 32 keeps flirting with Cheryl’s husband.
Posted by blandwagon on 2007 06 17 at 09:47 PM • permalinkColdest day in Hobart in twelve years. I blame global warming.
Re #32, maybe the news is that solar panels aren’t cheap? ;-P
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 06 17 at 10:06 PM • permalinkOT, but the non-professional salesman opera singer has scored himself 100,000 pounds.
Flummery youtube: WWF interview
Note the wild, wide eyes ... points of dramatic emphasis on the snake oil?
From Update III link above:
Now we’re doing a lot more to save water, like bailing the water from our showers into the toilet and tipping the washing machine water onto the garden.
I don’t know why we have indoor plumbing*, bucketing water everywhere. Using water from the shower to flush the toilet.
Someone made a good point here at timblair.com some time ago. What’s going to happen to the sewerage system in Brisbane when there is no water going down it? It won’t work without water, it relies on the extra water to keep it working properly.
*But I suppose when we all move into caves and rock shelters and lean-tos and burn dung to cook our lentils we’ll be used to living the
hardgreeneco-friendly life.CBD shooting update:
Scuttlebut from an associate in one of the insurers is that the killer had earlier that morning got into an altercation with people at a night club before the shooting happened. The rumour is that at least one of the people shot knew the man.
Than again, it’s just scuttlebut
Posted by fankytomato on 2007 06 17 at 10:59 PM • permalinkThere’s big money in the global climate change scam. Alas, that P. T. Barnum is dead and unable to jump on this bandwagon, so perfect for him. “There’s a scuker born every minute.”
Posted by Michael Lonie on 2007 06 17 at 11:08 PM • permalinkO/T:
Marr goes loco over Coco Roco case: is this dude getting more paranoid?
Perpetual protector of the poison pen ...
I suggested to a young work colleague on Friday that Warragamba Dam would be 70% full by the end of the year. She burst out laughing. I bet her $10 (she’s a junior and will need to eat). I’m confident I’ll collect and was especially so after 100-plus millimetres (four inches) fell across much of the catchment on the weekend. And just wait for the mother of all cold snaps hitting the NSW tablelands Tuesday night / Wednesday morning. What will Flanno say about that?
Good news is that it’ll be fine when the ‘pies smash the Swanettes at Homebush on Saturday night!!Posted by Ben Haslem on 2007 06 18 at 12:19 AM • permalinkOT Singing artiste, (“I’m not here for your entertainment”) Pink is about to release a protest song as a single in Australia and Europe called Dear Mr President.
Ms Pink is entitled to write and perform pretty much anything she wants, however the dodgy bit is this (from the above link):
She stated that it will never be released as a single in the United States because it will lose its meaning and impact if radio stations overplay it.[1] quote]
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 06 18 at 01:09 AM • permalink#47 - It’s really quite impossible to overstate how craptastic that song is. It’s the aural equivalent of receiving a reverse enema.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 06 18 at 01:19 AM • permalinkGene Gene the dancing machine has more political relevance than Pink.
Posted by dean martin on 2007 06 18 at 03:55 AM • permalink#47, another example of life imitating comedy. A mockumentary of Norwegian faux boy-band Boyzvoice, featured the song “Hey Mr President”.
If you like the lyrics, check out some of the videos (including “Twelve year old woman” and “what’s happening to my body?”).
Posted by Art Vandelay on 2007 06 18 at 04:03 AM • permalink#38, kae
But I suppose when we all move into caves and rock shelters and lean-tos and burn dung to cook our lentils we’ll be used to living the
hard greeneco-friendly life.Way back when the environmental movement was the ecology movement, I remember thinking that they would not be satisfied until we were back in the trees plucking fruit. Those who think that far ahead don’t even see us doing that, much less living in caves. They see us all dead, because we are a cancer upon Gaia. Those who don’t look that far ahead don’t really give a damn about Gaia, but do care very much about bringing all of us under control—with them in charge.
Presumably Timmeh Flannery, the Oz Climate Primate, is aware that efficient Geothermal* electricity plants utilise cooling water and cooling towers juz like coal-fired plants?
*Hot dry rock technology, per International Geothermal Association
#55
Pissy lil’ 46 MW Geothermal plant in Svartsengi, Iceland.Noice steam funnels, eh?
It ain’t coal smoke, Al, it’s steam OK?
OT again
So-called “Tim Blair” finally got his come-uppance in the Daily Telegraph letters to the editor today. After reading Tim’s latest column, a canny reader has concluded that Tim may in fact be on the payroll of the Australian Labor Party.
About time someone was willing to say it like it is to that ne’er-do-well.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 06 18 at 05:41 AM • permalink#58,
In the 70s there was talk of towing icebergs to Adelaide but I digress.
The blindingly obvious answer to Adelaide’s fresh water problems is de-salination but that requires lots of energy.
The politically ‘cleanest’ source of sufficient energy is nuclear.
South Australia exports up to 4600 tonnes of uranium oxide from Olympic Dam (7% -10% of world production) every year.
The ALP premier of SA has promised to legislate to prevent a nuclear power plant “ever being built in the state”
As they say in the USA, go figure.#6 Pickles: the latest BOM forecast implies that we are in for neutral conditions come the Qld wet season, although rainfall for winter in southern Australia should still be good. We need a couple of good years to offset the overall water deficit, particularly in the Murray Darling Basin. Things aren’t so dire for the Wivenhoe Dam catchment.
Pity it is less likely to be a La Nina summer, but at this time of year the forecastis often uncertain, but could still swing to very good news (given conditions, it is almost impossible to swing to an El Nino). if it is a La Nina , the odds are very high that Wivenhoe will fill. The distribution of inflows to the dam in La Nina years ALL exceed the amount needed to fill the dam. It is less likely in a neutral year, but significant inflows can still occur.
BTW. Wivenhoe full is about 1100 Gl (or a bit over two sydharbs). However, it is capable of holding over 1500 Gl (or three sydharbs). The difference is used for flood mitigation.contrail - Bret Walker happens to be as good or better than the present High Court bench. He is without doubt in the top 5 counsel in Australia.
I had the pleasure to brief him and hear his performance.
While I have no idea on his opinion in this matter, I note JH was at pains to point out it wasn’t a fund-raiser and the Liberal Party re-paid any funds raised. I reckon even the libs agree it is naughty to use public property for political fund raising.
re melb shootings - they say the 2 guys were innocent bystanders and the creep was involved in a qld shooting previously - hope they get the scumbag
latest poll has labor primary going below 50% for first time in 6 months - muddy ruddy is sticking
#69 - Tim is a labor stooge - that is the sort of thinking we need in the UN chief - oh wait ...
re flannery - I hope he goes on to keep making stupid statements and when all this loses momentum he will start shrieking even more, and eventually someone will ask him a serious question and he will explode.OT, but Media Watch is currently laying the boot into this site. Bigtime.
Posted by Steve at the pub on 2007 06 18 at 07:34 AM • permalinkHahahaha. El Cid and Kae, Howzat, Grimmy, you’ve made MediaHacks.
Tonight’s effort is all about the dreadful racist comments in papers, and brings up the suggestions that people who express their views should do so in more polite terms.
From this thread.
Comments #6, #7, #80, for example. With one of Grimmy’s gems hahahaha.
Needless to say, Monica didn’t show any of the anti-aussie comments that also end up on the online reader comments pages.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 06 18 at 07:41 AM • permalinkO/T
Media Watch.
I’m famous, along with El Cid and Grimmy and I can’t remember who else (maybe Paco), for this, about composting.
It seems we’re racist!
Fair’s, fair: we give meeja <strike>crotch</strike> <strike>botch</strike> watch free publicity, too.
Geothermia, where the wind comes sweepin’ down the plain
And the wellin’ sweat can sure smell … sweet
When the wind comes right behind the … er, rain.
Geothermia, Ev’ry night my honey lamb and I
Sit alone and talk, I’m such a dork,
Makin’ lazy theses, claims and lies.
We know we belong to the land
And the land we belong to is Flanned!
And when we saaaaaaaay
Yeeow! Ayipioeeay!
We’re only sayin’
You’re doin’ fine, Geothermia!
Geothermia’s O.K.Of course we are, Kae, we don’t cringe and scrape to minorities.
Nor do we say sorry to supposedly stolen generations.
Just once, I’d like to see some bloody gratitude for what western civilisation has provided the moaning whiners.
I’m tired of being labelled as racist/discriminatory or oppressive because I happen to be an “anglo-aussie” (whatever happened to just being an aussie??) by people who are apparently asylum seekers and have no respect for the culture of their new homes.
I feel like I’m living in a bloody Monty Python sketch.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 06 18 at 07:56 AM • permalinkHahaha, kae. It’s called “search”. Go back to the main page, and down the left panel there is a box you type a phrase in.
I typed in “taxi driver”.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 06 18 at 07:57 AM • permalink#75
Blogstrop, I’ll be singing that at work tomorrow.. maybe not.#76
Nilk, I agree. If you voice any opposition or criticism, you’re a racist. Oh, except if you are a member of the minority, then you just have an opinion, even when that opinion is racist!!#77
You’re all over it, like you are on lots of stuff. I was using google. Damn, I’ll use that search in future…So, someone help me out here.
Am I famous orinfamous?
Kae, you are a legend. Who cares whether you are famous or infamous. As Oscar said (I think) “The only thing worse than being noticed is not being noticed.”
Hmm.Good point, locoti. I’d consider using the fact I was born overseas as my get out of jail free card, but I was born in the States, so I’m doubly damned.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 06 18 at 08:16 AM • permalinkJust in case the thicker members of their audience don’t get it (and they know their audience), Media Watch demonstrate contempt by adding broader accents.
Thus the voice-overs for Blair commenters make Steve Irwin sound like Princess Anne. Comments they like are delivered in a slightly English accent like a private school headmaster. The subtext: Australian = racist.
Of course, the entire pretext of the episode was to have a go at this forum.
BTW You lucky bastards, Monica is kinda hot when she gets all scoldy…
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 06 18 at 08:17 AM • permalinkAlso notable: they aired comments from all of the other editors, but seem to have overlooked Tim’s right of reply.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 06 18 at 08:40 AM • permalinkWill someone lock monica in her house where she belongs?
They could also slice off her clit while they’re at it.
Now I’ve got your parasitic broadcasters attention…
Feck off you lazy leftie, west-hating, racism-projecting, arrogant bunch of addicts of other peoples hard earned money.
ABC should go subscription rather than conscription.
Tim Blair, who edits The Daily Telegraph’s opinion pages, also runs a blog.
He allowed this vicious discussion about Muslim taxi drivers supposedly knocking back passengers with guide dogs.
——————————————————-I must remind my blind mate who has put up with this shit that SUPPOSEDLY it’s all in his head.
#85 Anthony, I watched that too. I used to work for Telstra but escaped in 98. Never worked in a call centre, but never heard anything good from them, either.
I was with cust services when they were bringing the call centre structure in, and all the monitoring stuff back in the early 90s, and it shat me then.
How on earth are you supposed to do your job when you’re always looking over your shoulder?
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 06 18 at 08:50 AM • permalink#93. Yup. And I’m goodlooking, too. I even shave my legs.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 06 18 at 09:00 AM • permalinkOT Breaking. 31 children rescued and 700 suspects arrested worldwide as a paedophile ring is smashed.
Here. And here.
I won’t comment as I’ll end up on MediaWatch as one of those bigoted, racists and otherwise commenters.Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 06 18 at 09:04 AM • permalink#90
Former staffer making a case for Scrapping the BBC.Applicable to our ABC ...
... it should operate more like newspapers and allow strong opinions and viewpoints rather than being a balanced and an impartial observer.
Makes the case that to show ‘impartiality’, the Beebs bashes the incumbent Govt; Privately owned media is truthful or readers wouldn’t buy it (FauxFax?)
Can mediawatch do an investigation into so-called paedophile news as an attack on muslim values?
After all in some cultures, women are property and they are free to be married at six and the “marriage” consecrated at 9. To call it paedophilia is culturally insensitive.
/leftwing deranged moonbat
I’ve just had a thought. Whenever I think up something this stupid, the left top it with something even worse.
Did Monica of MediaWatch provide the context to those three comments? Isn’t that the shield of protection by the Islamists?
Hells bells. Most of the commenters here use liberal use of hyperbole, parody, and satire to bring emphasis or humor to their comments. And yet, I would bet Monica didn’t draw attention to any of that.
What’s next? Will she be airing a show on unscrupilous neoconservative multinational corporate globalists exploiting Chinese prison labor to sell FIGHT GLOBAL WARMING braclets at Pink concerts? (Yes paco, I saw your booths). Or one on how the neocons have a time machine, an orbital space station, a Japanese weather machine without an operators manual, an Alpha moon base, a fleet of Birds of Prey, and a 7th century monastery/orientation center at their disposal?
Sounds like partisan journalism to me.
Posted by wronwright on 2007 06 18 at 09:41 AM • permalinkOops. Just realized that I missed my assigned class at the orientation center.
Anyone know when the makeup test is at Moon
Base Alpha? I’m going for my Bird of Prey Advanced Mechanics certification….Posted by Tex Lovera on 2007 06 18 at 09:47 AM • permalink#101
Former staffer making a case for Scrapping the BBC.
Applicable to our ABC ...
Might the Left have taken a leaf out of the Islamic playbook - preemptive massive whining?
And might that explain all the whinging recently about the “crushing of dissent” and “silencing” of the Left.
Are the Marxists terrified at the prospect of losing their main propaganda arm, the ABC?If only Monica Attard was silent…and out of sight. Yech.
The ABC should be scrapped.You have to wonder if the Greenies are simply useless or telling porkies as Tim Flannery seems to be doing.
O/T:
Death Row Inmate Wishes to Be ‘Dead Man Laughing’: hosts contest for best gallows humour joke to be recited in his “Last Statement”.Since I’m just a Yankee Imperialist Running Dog, I can’t comment on Media Watch (idiots, aren’t they?). However, Tex, I can spot you a ride in the Tardis and jump you back, if you like (for a hefty fee).
They think these comments aren’t moderated? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Andrea, sharpen your spear!
Elizabeth
Imperial KeeperPosted by Elizabeth Imperial Keeper on 2007 06 18 at 12:40 PM • permalinkYeah, but let some of their ignorant diatribes be quoted and there are immediate shouts about “context—taken out of context!”
I am really pissed. I’ve written quote worthy anti-Islam stuff, and I know that I wasn’t being sarcastic or farcical or using hyperbole because I’m about as dry and unfunny as they come. So why wasn’t I quoted? There is no justice!
Tim was talking about dams and rain and stuff, which reminds me of the time when I was down in the Snowy Mountains, sitting on a bar stool in the Lake Jindabyne Hotel in the springtime. That afternoon was like any other, I suppose.
Except that the skies opened up and the rain came crashing down so heavily that day turned to night.
Now, in the High Country, the weather holds few surprises. Summer drought and the choking haze of bushfires replace winter snow drifts several metres deep. Dry winds that’ll crack your lips in minutes are slaked by lightning storms that can nail the laundry door shut with hailstones.
Looking out through the plate glass windows toward the range that day, there was nothing but a distorted maze of raindrops that seemed to come crashing down and drift upwards at the same time. All with the roar of corrugated iron under a drum roll of cascading water.
Through it all, an old fella who ran a mob of about three or four hundred sheep up on the Mowamba River came walking in along the side verandah and then straight up to the bar. Reaching out for a beer, he looked up from under the stream of water still running off the brim of his hat, and said;
“We might git’bit of rain, if this keeps up.”
#74 egg
yeah, that’s right.I was taken out of context, of course.
#85 & 92
I worked for Telecom/Telstra on the admin/tech side (fault despatch, depot clerk) in the 80s. I’ve only ever heard bad stuff about call centres. You must ask to go to the toilet and it’s become more and more a performance job, you must perform.
I can understand the stress.
Working for a tyrant is not pleasant.#113
Sorry, Salty, your comments are much more worthy of wider publicity… however, you didn’t say mean things.#81 “Media Watch‘s sins were scarlet, because they’re all Reds”?
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Or be wiped out in flooding. It depends on what happens. BTW, was Flipper Australian, too, or was that just Skippy?