Hang in there Australia!!- tough times

Kiwi Phil

Kiwi Phil

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Re: Hang in there Australia!!- tough times

It's getting worse!!
I guess what we see on the news is not necessarily the main issue.
Yes, a few thousand people have been flooded out, lost all their uninsured possessions etc, and the State Govt is making grants of assistance, and people are being asked to make donations, and yes, we should be concerned for them, but that is not the big problem.
This flood is slowly destroying our infrastructure.
I am not talking about just hundreds of miles here, but the asphalt roads are often completely destroyed, just broken off in big big chunks and washed to the side.
The specialized rail line that pulls $b's of coal, are just rail and sleeper with all ballast gone.
It is not a month or two repair job.
Some coal mines (open cast) are completely flooded, and they are quite big holes in the ground.
Maybe this is what they are referring to when they describe it as 'catastrophic' or 'of biblical proportions'.
The grow tunnel-house I put in ? 2yrs back has been a god-send.
I have disease-free top-grade product.
I am not getting any more $'s because of shortages, (I don't work that way - prefer fixed price) but the orders have risen, so as long as the light levels remain constant I should be ok.
Cheers
Phillip
 
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DayCruiser

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Re: Hang in there Australia!!- tough times

Ya weather patterns change all the time. Sometimes there is a road block of system movement. Highs get stuck and block lows and visa versa causing repeat patterns. Like when Montreal got hit by continuous ice storms back in 1998. A High Pressure system was stalled in the North Atlantic. Then there was the Mississippi floods when a high pressure stalled over the Southeastern US. A record 3 year drought in the South East was caused by a Stalled low over the Northeast US a couple of years ago.
Doesn't make you feel much better when you are dried up or flooded but you should know these are normal cycles of weather. Maybe the pattern of 500 years ago that has rolled around again. We all think this has never happened before. Well probably did but we weren't alive then or there wasn't record keeping then or our memory is faded. You should know there is light at the end of the tunnel because most patterns go back to normal--when they get good and ready.
But then again, maybe God is punishing you Aussies :)
 
Dunaruna

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Re: Hang in there Australia!!- tough times

Let's put this into perspective, some of these areas regularly get between 3 > 12 METRES of rain per year (ie: Inisfall). Then they build cities on the flood plains. Where else is the water supposed to go? These areas are tropical, they get cyclones/hurricanes every year.

I have just returned from a 10 day holiday smack bang in the middle of this mess but we were not affected because the town we were staying in is coastal and hilly. All the water runs off quickly. The area that is badly affected is a massive river basin system that measures 142537 square km. It is like trying to drain an olympic size swimming pool with a 1/4 inch hose.
 
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