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OzDigger said:
No Worries (another Sir Les saying). Btw I just got home after helping my brother repair his garden shed after a mini tornado decided to mix it up a bit. After some post shed raising refreshments he showed me the following video shot yesterday at a local beach less than five minutes from where I live.

Note that it's not snow it's foam whipped up by strong winds and waves, a close call for Two local cops:

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=4877236821508
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Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em hey Matt! Bloody clown, dunno how he could drive through that without doing "dodgems" with the bus!

Tom
 
Hi Toddy and Tom, some of that film was on the Six o'clock News tonite, it was one of the dumbest actions I've seen for a while and not something you expect to see occur so close to your own home, I hope it wasn't a local driver {eek3}
 
OzDigger said:
Hi Toddy and Tom, some of that film was on the Six o'clock News tonite, it was one of the dumbest actions I've seen for a while and not something you expect to see occur so close to your own home, I hope it wasn't a local driver {eek3}
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Probably some ex-pat Kiwi wondering where all the snow came from:tongue::wink2:
 
 
On a more sobbering note........heck Bundaberg is a bit sodden guys.....it looks like half of Queensland is under water.....hope Waynes chooks are ok?!

Hope not to many Forum members are caught up in that lot........I know Australia neeeded the rain, but I think someone needs to turn the tap off now.
 
Desertkiwi said:
On a more sobbering note........heck Bundaberg is a bit sodden guys.....it looks like half of Queensland is under water.....hope Waynes chooks are ok?!

Hope not to many Forum members are caught up in that lot........I know Australia neeeded the rain, but I think someone needs to turn the tap off now.
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Don't worry Toddy the chooks are fine mate they have the ly-lows out now and are laying back in the sun with their sunnies on, yes Bundy has copped it this time and has sure as the sun comes up some one else will get it next year, it is a annual thing here. You just gotta love this sun burnt country we live in, harsh it is sometimes but wonderful all the time. Just about every river is the centre of a huge flood plain and of course where did the first settlers build? right beside the bloody rivers which was no drama then as a drought would last ten years or so but then a week of no stop rain would come out of the blue and look out. When I was a little fella just about every home was raised up on stumps it was just the way you did things in Queensland but over the years that idea went by the way side with new estates, it is a lesson they're swiftly relearning now (hopefully).
Wayne.
 
Desertkiwi said:
On a more sobbering note........heck Bundaberg is a bit sodden guys.....it looks like half of Queensland is under water.....hope Waynes chooks are ok?!

Hope not to many Forum members are caught up in that lot........I know Australia neeeded the rain, but I think someone needs to turn the tap off now.
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I am sure Western NSW, WA, Vic and SA wouldn't mind a few drops of that rain Toddy although i reckon they would pass on the floods that Qld and Eastern NSW is copping at the moment! I hope the Bundy Distillery has survived the floods in Bundaberg otherwise there is going to be a lot of rum drinkers out there going cold turkey! {eek3}

P.S. I heard Wayne is now selling eggs...:rolleyes2:{sm4}

Tom
 
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Mate where roasting over here with water restrictions,you gotta love this country.
 
Yeah guys, it sure has been a tough time for some people, especially those that didn't have flood insurance in the 2011 flood and used their savings to rebuild only to have it all go down the drain again this year.

As some have said it reminds us of the Sunburnt Country poem penned by Dorothea Mackellar c 1908, I will list it below as you don't often see the complete version, a bit like our national anthem in that regard:


The love of field and coppice
Of green and shaded lanes
Of ordered woods and gardens
Is running in your veins --
Strong love of grey-blue distance
Brown streams and soft dim skies...
I know but cannot share it,
My love is otherwise.

I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains
Of ragged mountain ranges
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror --
The wide brown land for me!

The stark white ringbarked forests
All tragic 'neath the moon
The sapphire-misted mountains
The hot gold rush of noon --
Green tangle of the brushes
Where lithe lianas coil
And orchid-laden tree-ferns
Smother the crimson soil.

Core of my heart, my country --
Her pitiless blue sky,
When sick at heart, around us
We see the cattle die...
And then the grey clouds gather
And we can bless again,
The drumming of an army,
The steady, soaking rain.

Core of my heart, my country,
Young Land of Rainbow Gold --
For flood and fire and famine
She pays us back three-fold...
Over the thirsty paddocks
Watch, after many days
A filmy veil of greenness
That thickens as you gaze...

An opal-hearted country,
A wilful, lavish land --
Ah, you who have not loved her
You cannot understand...
...The world is fair and splendid
But whensoe'er I die
I know to what brown country
My homing thoughts will fly!
 
waynepoo said:
Don't worry Toddy the chooks are fine mate they have the ly-lows out now and are laying back in the sun with their sunnies on, yes Bundy has copped it this time and has sure as the sun comes up some one else will get it next year, it is a annual thing here. You just gotta love this sun burnt country we live in, harsh it is sometimes but wonderful all the time. Just about every river is the centre of a huge flood plain and of course where did the first settlers build? right beside the bloody rivers which was no drama then as a drought would last ten years or so but then a week of no stop rain would come out of the blue and look out. When I was a little fella just about every home was raised up on stumps it was just the way you did things in Queensland but over the years that idea went by the way side with new estates, it is a lesson they're swiftly relearning now (hopefully).
Wayne.
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Arrrr thats ok then, I now of an image of a dozen chooks floating about on Ly-lows in ya backyard, wearing pink Raybans, sucking down cocktails, while sing'n away to ya Rolf Harris CD.{eek3}

.....funny you should mention the the house stump thing too, some of the lads here were talking about why you'd live so close to a river, without being up high, with all the regular flooding......bit of a harsh lesson really, but sounds like common sense to me....{sm2}
 
TomNT said:
I am sure Western NSW, WA, Vic and SA wouldn't mind a few drops of that rain Toddy although i reckon they would pass on the floods that Qld and Eastern NSW is copping at the moment! I hope the Bundy Distillery has survived the floods in Bundaberg otherwise there is going to be a lot of rum drinkers out there going cold turkey! {eek3}

P.S. I heard Wayne is now selling eggs...:rolleyes2:{sm4}

Tom
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Laying eggs on Ly-lows, now there's a thing ya don't see everyday.......Wayne must have a heck of a time collecting them^&grin

Yeah thats a bit of a worry about the rum distillery......tell me is this the same place they make 'Bundaberg' Ginger Beer?
 
Desertkiwi said:
Laying eggs on Ly-lows, now there's a thing ya don't see everyday.......Wayne must have a heck of a time collecting them^&grin

Yeah thats a bit of a worry about the rum distillery......tell me is this the same place they make 'Bundaberg' Ginger Beer?
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Yeah mate, they make Bundy Ginger Beer there as well so i may go cold turkey if the floods have affected the processing plant!

Tom
 
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